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O'Connor, Rollanda E.; Beach, Kristen D.; Sanchez, Victoria M.; Kim, Joyce J.; Knight Teague, Kerri; Orozco, Guadalupe; Jones, Brian T. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Adolescents with disabilities have great difficulty with academic content in middle school, and their teachers have difficulty teaching them to understand and use academic language. We taught teachers of 6th grade students with Learning Disabilities, over half of whom were also English Language Learners (ELL), to implement about 15 minutes of…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English Language Learners, Grade 6, English for Academic Purposes
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O'Connor, Rollanda E.; Fulmer, Deborah; Harty, Kristin R.; Bell, Kathryn M. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2005
In this study, students and their teachers participated in a layered approach to reading intervention in kindergarten through third grade that included professional development for teachers in scientifically based reading instruction, ongoing measurement of reading progress, and additional small-group or individual instruction for students whose…
Descriptors: Individual Instruction, Reading Instruction, Intervention, Reading Achievement
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O'Connor, Rollanda E.; Harty, Kristin R.; Fulmer, Deborah – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2005
This study measured the effects of increasing levels of intervention in reading for a cohort of children in Grades K through 3 to determine whether the severity of reading disability (RD) could be significantly reduced in the catchment schools. Tier 1 consisted of professional development for teachers of reading. The focus of this study is on…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Reading Instruction, Intervention, Reading Comprehension