Reading+Comprehension+SLD

This page will mainly provide resources and help for students with SLDs in the area of reading comprehension.

Students with specific learinng disabilities in reading comprehension benefit from knowing the lesson's objective or purpose before reading. Do we care about details involving a characters or the setting (etc.)? Providing students with graphic organizers or other ways to map or record what they've read. This allows students with slower processing to look over their "notes" and better remember what they have read. Strong teacher modeling of reading comprehension strategies and identification of structures assists students in understanding the cognitive steps to breaking down and understanding a piece of writing. Allowing the student to apply the strategy to several different types and pieces of writing also increases overall comprehension.

While researching, I also found some good information for various reading SLDs. This a a great source for determining what type of Reading SLD your student may have:

Ways to accommodate and focus instruction for students with reading SLDs: [|Reading Comprehension SLDs]

Resources focused on Comprehension:

A long but comprehensive article that discusses difficulties of students with learning disabilities as well as the effectiveness of current strategies: Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies to Students With Learning Disabilities: A Review of Research From article - Teachers should focus on modeling and explicitly teaching the following: 1. Strategic Processing and Metacognition 2. Knowledge of Common Text Structures 3. Specific Narrative and Expository Text Structures 4. Importance of Vocabulary Knowledge 5. Appropriate Use of Background Knowledge While Reading 6. Reading Fluency in Comprehension 7. Active Reading and Task Persistence

Story-Mapping Training as a Means of Improving Reading Comprehension Lorna Idol and Valerie J. Croll Learning Disability Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Summer, 1987), pp. 214-229 Published by: [|Council for Learning Disabilities] [|Story Mapping]

Some children can master decoding and still be poor comprehenders. Learn what interventions have been found to help these children read narrative and expository texts more strategically. [|Improving Comprehension for Students with LD]

Lots of links [|The Resource Room: Reading Comprehension]

This research synthesis was conducted to critically review recent contributions to the body of research on reading comprehension in students with LD with the goal of enhancing current classroom practices and identifying avenues for future research. [|Reading Comprehension Instruction for Students with LD]

Specific lessons, techniques, and instructions for educators [|Interventions for Improving Reading Comprehension]