Advocates of high standards and expectations usually believe that gaps in reading achievement can be eliminated with good teaching, but slow readers need a specially designed reading curriculum. The teacher first needs to use an informal reading inventory to determine the student's reading level. Functioning generally on a higher level than…

Describes a music program that enables mentally retarded children to learn to play musical instruments, beginning with a trumpet and progressing to other three valve instruments. (Author/RK)

Suggests ways of changing negative concepts in low-ability children (DS)

Environmental characteristics, classroom atmosphere, motivation, and behavior of slow learners'' are some major categories discussed. Numerous specific examples are used to illustrate suggestions. Methods of reinforcing student attitudes are emphasized. (LS)

Suggestions for organizing and implementing a math-lab approach are given. Devices useful with the topic of place value and manipulations with the geoboard are discussed extensively. Many other materials are listed and referenced. (LS)

Provides brief descriptions and an order blank for 14 examples of self-teaching materials. (SB)

The effectiveness of Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment program (FIE) in improving the cognitive performance of slow learners was tested for one year with low performing vocational high school students in Ontario (Canada). Improved cognitive performance was noted for FIE students, although changes in personality and attitude were substantiated…

The effect of group counseling techniques in reducing habitual truancy among a group of high school special education students was studied. It was determined that nondirect counseling methods--especially when combined with contingency contracting--were effective in increasing school attendance. (MH)

This study investigated the self-perceptions of 95 low-ability and 100 high-ability adolescents in a rural community of Jamaica, using a specifically designed survey that incorporated Jamaican culture. The survey examined the following categories: athletic competence, behavioral conduct, social acceptance, scholastic competence, physical…

Proposes using cookies (recipe included) and pizza to help Chapter I students, grades two through five, understand basic fraction concepts. (MKR)

This article examines characteristics of low-performing readers, especially their poor word recognition skills; compares approaches to teaching word recognition to slow-learning children; identifies characteristics of successful methods of teaching word recognition; and concludes that phonics-based, thoroughly systematic, direct instruction is…

Forty adolescents with reading/spelling disabilities were assigned on the basis of IQ/achievement discrepancy scores to either a dyslexic or slow learner group. Significantly more females than males were in the slow learner category. Despite having lower IQs, the slow learning group had higher achievement levels, but group differences on…