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A Strategic Approach To Adolescent Literacy: A Diagnosis And Prescription For Students With Reading Deficits, Allison Norris
A Strategic Approach To Adolescent Literacy: A Diagnosis And Prescription For Students With Reading Deficits, Allison Norris
LC Journal of Special Education
The purpose of this paper is to explore the reasons that older students have not reached an age-appropriate level of reading and to collectively assemble and briefly summarize a small inventory of techniques that are adolescent specific and have been proven to close the gap between the struggling reader and their non-struggling peers. The paper concludes with a summary of the attributes of a proactive stance towards reading instruction and how our attitudes towards older students and reading instruction must be flexible. Allowances must be made for those adolescent students who have not mastered the basic reading fundamentals. Utilization of …
Adolescent Students With Disabilities And Learning Strategies, Lee Mattox
Adolescent Students With Disabilities And Learning Strategies, Lee Mattox
LC Journal of Special Education
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the classroom demands in middle and high school and the expectations for independent learning in adolescent students. This paper also examines the performance deficits that are commonly found in adolescents with disabilities. An overview of learning strategies instruction follows. Finally, implications for adolescent students from this type of instruction are discussed.