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Word Study Intervention for Students with ASD: A Multiple Baseline Study of Data-Based Individualization
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Solís, Michael; El Zein, Farah; Black, Marie; Miller, Alexandra; Therrien, William J.; Invernizzi, Marcia – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2018
This multiple baseline across participants study examined the efficacy of a data-based individualization word study intervention for students with autism spectrum disorder (N=5) and low word reading skills. An experienced interventionist provided 1:1 word reading instruction in 30-minute sessions five times per week for an average of 10 sessions…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Word Study Skills, Intervention
Individual and Contextual Factors Influencing Special Education Teacher Learning in Literacy Learning Cohorts
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Brownell, Mary T.; Lauterbach, Alexandra A.; Dingle, Mary P.; Boardman, Alison G.; Urbach, Jennifer E.; Leko, Melinda M.; Benedict, Amber E.; Park, Yujeong – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2014
In this study, researchers operated from cognitive and situated perspectives to understand how individual qualities and contextual factors influenced elementary special education teachers' learning in a multifaceted professional development (PD) project, Literacy Learning Cohort, focused on word study and fluency instruction. Grounded theory…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Special Education Teachers, Reading Instruction, Disabilities
Typing Speed, Spelling Accuracy, and the Use of Word-Prediction
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Herold, Marina; Alant, Erna; Bornman, Juan – South African Journal of Education, 2008
Children with spelling difficulties are limited in their participation in all written school activities. We aimed to investigate the influence of word-prediction as a tool on spelling accuracy and typing speed. To this end, we selected 80 Grade 4-6 children with spelling difficulties in a school for special needs to participate in a research…
Descriptors: Keyboarding (Data Entry), Spelling, Accuracy, Special Needs Students
The Effects of Comprehensive Vocabulary Instruction on Title I Students' Metacognitive Word-Learning Skills and Reading Comprehension
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Lubliner, Shira; Smetana, Linda – Journal of Literacy Research, 2005
This study examined the effects of a multifaceted, metacognitive vocabulary intervention on the reading comprehension and vocabulary achievement of fifth-grade children in one of California's lowest performing Title I schools. Instruction was comprehensive, designed to facilitate encoding of student-selected words, mastery of clarifying…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Literacy Education, Metacognition, Word Study Skills
Word Savvy: Integrating Vocabulary, Spelling, and Word Study
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Brand, Max – Stenhouse Publishers, 2004
Tired of assigning weekly spelling lists that students memorize for the test only to have them misspell the words in their daily writing? Then join Max Brand in his fifth-grade classroom where word learning is integrated fully into literacy workshops. Using spelling investigations, word study notebooks, reading logs, and writers' notebooks,…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Classroom Environment, Sentences, Spelling Instruction
The Effect of Instructions and Priming on the Use of Analogy Strategies in Reading.
Wolff, Diana; And Others – 1981
A study was conducted to examine (1) the type of instruction most likely to help both normal and learning disabled readers use the analogy strategy in reading novel words, and (2) how fifth grade disabled readers compared with normal second and fifth grade readers. Analogy strategies, the most abstract of the reading strategies, are generally…
Descriptors: Analogy, Comparative Analysis, Decoding (Reading), Developmental Stages