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Literature-Based Social Skills Instruction: A Strategy for Students with Learning Disabilities
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Womack, Sue A.; Marchant, Michelle; Borders, Deah – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2011
Social skill deficits and learning disabilities often coexist. Academic work is negatively impacted by students' lack of social skills. Remediation of these deficits in pull-out programs has not generally resulted in transfer to real-world settings. Embedding social skills instruction within literature during a read-aloud session taught in the…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Interpersonal Competence, Reading Aloud to Others, Educational Strategies
The Effects of Self-Questioning and Story Structure Training on the Reading Comprehension of Poor Readers.
Griffey, Quentin L., Jr.; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research, 1988
The study compared the effectiveness of providing elementary students with learning disabilities with either (1) instruction in both story structure and self-questioning techniques or (2) just training in story structure identification. The combined self-questioning and story structure group demonstrated the greatest gains in reading…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities, Metacognition
The Effects of Procedural Facilitation on the Story Composition of Learning Disabled Students.
Graves, Anne; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research, 1990
Twenty learning-disabled students (grades 5 and 6) who received procedural facilitation for narrative composition, including story grammar cue cards and a metacognitive check-off procedure, produced better quality stories than a control group of 10 students. Including verbal reminders to develop characters did not affect story quality. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Cues, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities, Metacognition
Story Grammar: Effective Literature Instruction for High School Students with Learning Disabilities.
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Gurney, Dana; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1990
An instructional strategy for teaching comprehension of literature was tested with seven high school students with learning disabilities. The strategy taught story grammar through use of short stories and the paradigm of modeling/guided practice/independent practice. Students showed improved story comprehension. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: High Schools, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities, Literature
Reading and Writing with Help from Story Grammar.
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Hagood, Barbara F. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1997
Discusses "story grammar" strategies, such as self-questioning, story maps, character and plot development, and comparison and contrast of similar stories, which can be used to help elementary students with learning disabilities or low-achieving students improve their reading and writing skills. Activities are described for each…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Low Achievement, Reading Instruction
Planning, Procedural Facilitation, and Narrative Composition of Junior High Students with Learning Disabilities.
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Montague, Marjorie; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1991
This study of 40 junior high school students with learning disabilities and 20 control students found that significant intergroup differences in the quality of narrative compositions were not evident when students were allocated time for planning and were given "Create a Story" cues. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cues, Junior High Schools, Learning Disabilities
Using Story Grammar Cueing to Improve the Writing of Students with Learning Disabilities.
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Graves, Anne; Montague, Marjorie – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1991
This article provides specific recommendations for teaching students with learning disabilities how to use a story grammar cueing system for improving writing. The article emphasizes the importance of individualizing instruction and teaching for generalization, and discusses the purpose of the system and methods of assessment. (JDD)
Descriptors: Cues, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Story Grammar
The Effect of Goal Constraints on the Writing Performance of Urban Learning Disabled Students.
Isaacson, Stephen; Mattoon, Cynthia Burt – Learning Disabilities Research, 1990
Forty-two inner city intermediate-grade learning-disabled students wrote fables when provided with the following stimuli: story starter, story ending with story content, and story ending with rhetorical purpose. The story ending groups did more story development planning than the story starter group, but composition quality was not significantly…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Fables, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities