Teaching Effective Comprehension Strategies to Students with Learning and Reading Disabilities

In this article, we summarize several metacognitive strategies designed to improve reading comprehension in students with learning and reading disabilities and describe an instructional model showing how to teach comprehension strategies to students. Each recommended strategy has been formally evalu...

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Published inIntervention in school and clinic Vol. 33; no. 4; pp. 209 - 218
Main Authors Swanson, Philip N., De La Paz, Susan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.03.1998
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Classrooms
Comprehension
Educational Facilities Improvement
Elementary Secondary Education
Grade 1
Grade 4
Heuristics
Inferences
Job Application
Learning Disabilities
Metacognition
Prior Learning
Reading Comprehension
Reading Difficulties
Reading disabled students
Reading Improvement
Reading Instruction
Reading Strategies
Remedial Reading
Researchers
Strategies
Student Improvement
Teaching
Teaching Methods
Teaching Models
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Summary:In this article, we summarize several metacognitive strategies designed to improve reading comprehension in students with learning and reading disabilities and describe an instructional model showing how to teach comprehension strategies to students. Each recommended strategy has been formally evaluated and found to be effective for improving students' reading comprehension. Practical suggestions are also provided to help teachers implement these strategies in their classrooms.
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ISSN:1053-4512
1538-4810
DOI:10.1177/105345129803300403