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Boon, Richard T.; Paal, Michael; Hintz, Anna-Maria; Cornelius-Freyre, Melissa – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2015
The purpose of this article is to provide a review on the effectiveness of story mapping to improve the reading comprehension skills of middle and high school (Grades 6-12) students with learning disabilities (LD). An extensive review of the special education research-base revealed twelve (N = 12) story mapping intervention studies that met our…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Learning Disabilities, Intervention, Middle School Students
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Modiba, Maropeng; Stewart, Sandra – Research in Education, 2013
In this paper we draw on theories of teaching English as a second language (L2) to examine ways in which a teacher taught a novel to Grade 9 students whose home language is not English. How this second language English-speaker engaged with and spoke about her teaching highlighted her understanding of the challenges students seemed to experience…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Novels, English Instruction
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Gomes, Cheryl – English Journal, 2010
The authors, a ninth-grade teacher in a Special Education English class (Cheryl) and a teacher educator (Bucky), know of each other's work through a mutual interest in graphic novels. This article describes what happened in Cheryl's class when her students read "American Born Chinese" and discussed that text in a blog with its author, Gene Luen…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Norms, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Novels
Evensen, Sarah Charlotte – Online Submission, 2008
This thesis uses empirical research in order to understand effective strategies for successfully teaching of the expository essay to ninth grade students. Five focal areas are studied for targeted intervention in order to discover best practices for maximizing student learning of the essay format. The study hypothesizes that in order for ninth…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Writing Strategies, Expository Writing
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Faggella-Luby, Michael; Schumaker, Jean S.; Deshler, Donald D. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2007
The effects of using the Embedded Story-Structure (ESS) Routine in a literature course were investigated. A heterogeneous group of 79 ninth graders, including 14 students with LD, were randomly assigned to one of two conditions, with instruction occurring in groups of 12 to 14 students in general education literature classes over a nine-day…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness