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Bringing the Story Back into History: Teaching Social Studies to Children with Learning Disabilities
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Direct linkDull, Laura J.; van Garderen, Delinda – Preventing School Failure, 2005
Many at-risk students and students with learning problems struggle to understand social studies textbooks. Textbooks have been described as being "inconsiderate" of their readers (B. B. Armbruster & T. H. Anderson, 1988) because their authors have relied on an expository, rather than narrative, approach. In this article, the authors…
Descriptors: History, Social Studies, Learning Disabilities, Children
