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Literacy by Design: A Universal Design for Learning Approach for Students with Significant Intellectual Disabilities
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Coyne, Peggy; Pisha, Bart; Dalton, Bridget; Zeph, Lucille A.; Smith, Nancy Cook – Remedial and Special Education, 2012
Literacy instruction for students with significant intellectual disabilities traditionally emphasizes isolated skills instruction focusing on sight words and basic vocabulary. Recent research suggests these students benefit from high-quality instruction that includes comprehension and storybook reading. This study examined the effect of a…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Beginning Reading, Mental Retardation, Reading Achievement
Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS): A Tool for Evaluating Student Learning?
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Kamii, Constance; Manning, Maryann – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2005
To evaluate the usefulness of two DIBELS subtests (Phonemic Segmentation Fluency and Nonsense Word Fluency), 107 kindergartners and 101 first-graders who had taken the DIBELS were given a writing-of-words task and the Slosson Oral Reading Test of sight words. In addition, the 1st-graders' DIBELS included an Oral Reading Fluency subtest that…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Student Evaluation, Reading Tests, Kindergarten