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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
Diamond, Linda; Gutlohn, Linda – Consortium on Reading Excellence (NJ3), 2006
For all educators who are working to improve reading achievement, this handbook provides clear instructional approaches for successfully building students' vocabulary knowledge--knowledge essential for strong reading comprehension. With teacher-friendly sample lesson models, this book can be used to boost vocabulary instruction in any reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Achievement, Learning Strategies, Vocabulary Development
Greif, Ivo P. – 1981
Doubts about the reading vocabulary adequacies of today's high school graduates led to an experiment with a list of 199 difficult words culled from the "Reader's Digest." College juniors and seniors (298 in the first stage and 388 in the second stage) were asked to indicate whether they knew the pronunciation and the meaning of the…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, College Students, Context Clues, Definitions