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Ediger, Marlow – 2002
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…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Elementary Education, Phonics, Reading Aloud to Others

Knolle, Lee – Music Educators Journal, 1973
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)
Descriptors: Brass Instruments, Imitation, Instructional Programs, Mental Retardation
Watson, James R. – Today's Education, 1973
Suggests ways of changing negative concepts in low-ability children (DS)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Elementary School Students, Intelligence, Low Ability Students

Bales, Barney L.; And Others – Science Teacher, 1972
Descriptors: Educational Programs, Elementary School Science, Ethnic Groups, Instructional Materials

Pearson, James R. – National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Yearbook, 1973
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)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Instruction, Low Ability Students

Davidson, Patricia S.; Walter, Marion I. – National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Yearbook, 1973
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)
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Experiential Learning, Geometric Concepts, Instruction
Illinois Teacher For Contemporary Roles, 1972
Provides brief descriptions and an order blank for 14 examples of self-teaching materials. (SB)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Autoinstructional Aids, Consumer Education, Educational Games

Polinsky, Aaron S. – French Review, 1971
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Educationally Disadvantaged, Emotional Disturbances, Experimental Teaching
Ogletree, Earl; Ujlaki, Vilma E. – Illinois Schools Journal, 1970
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Disadvantaged Schools, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Discrimination

Narrol, Harvey; And Others – Journal of Educational Research, 1982
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…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Educationally Disadvantaged, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Innovation

Nagle, Richard J.; And Others – School Psychology Digest, 1979
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)
Descriptors: Attendance, Behavior Change, Case Studies, Contingency Management

Delcourt, Marcia A. B.; And Others – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 1997
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…
Descriptors: Culture Fair Tests, Foreign Countries, Gifted, Questionnaires

Kemp, Champee C. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1995
Proposes using cookies (recipe included) and pizza to help Chapter I students, grades two through five, understand basic fraction concepts. (MKR)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Courseware, Elementary Education, Food

Bateman, Barbara – Journal of Reading, Writing, and Learning Disabilities International, 1991
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…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness

Ackerman, Peggy T.; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1996
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…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Dyslexia, Intelligence Quotient