The ability to monitor one's own reading comprehension is a critical skill for deriving
meaning from text. Self-questioning during reading is a strategy that enables students to …

This paper reviews best practices for effective adolescent literacy programs. A focus is
placed on five areas of literacy instruction including word study, fluency, vocabulary …

" Unless we believe that those who have more are inherently superior to those who have
less, we should be troubled by the fact that patterns of achievement are often fairly …

In 1986 Benjamin Bloom published an article titled “Automaticity: Th e Hands and Feet of
Genius” in which he discussed the results of 5 years of research examining the …

Response to intervention (RTI) has received considerable attention from both researchers
and practitioners as a schoolwide model for service delivery. However, research is limited …

Thirty years of intervention research on the effects of reading comprehension strategies for
students with learning disabilities was reviewed in this quantitative synthesis. Specifically …

Reading comprehension, which refers to" the process of simultaneously extracting and
constructing meaning through interaction and involvement with written language"(Shanahan …

Advancements in technology-based solutions for students with learning disabilities (LD)
offer tremendous opportunities to enhance learning as well as meaningful access to the …

With the majority of students with learning disabilities (LD) having difficulties in reading,
teachers at all grade levels need to incorporate comprehension strategies into their …

Using a modified system of least prompts, two classroom teachers taught three participants
with moderate intellectual disability to generate questions about United States history. After …