Teaching Reading

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This paper explains that, in determining the best practices to teach reading to students who have learning or behavioral disabilities, attention must be paid to both story grammar and basal comprehension to determine the success or failure rate of the method used. The author points out that the use of story mapping is arguably the best practice to use in teaching reading to students of all grade levels because it provides a marked path for the student to follow as he or she makes his way through a story structure. The paper relates that story mapping allows the learning-disabled student to develop skills, which will allow continued success as materials and expectations increase as the student progresses to more advanced reading.

From the Paper:

"A study conducted in 1987 regarding the success of story mapping as a method for teaching reading skills to students with learning or behavior disabilities concluded that is one of the most successful methods currently available. In this study, five learning disabled fifth grade students were examined to determine the effect of simple story mapping on their comprehension abilities. Four out of the five students developed definable and significant story mapping ability and demonstrated significant improvement in their story grammar and comprehension skills once they began using the story mapping methods."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Reading instruction for students with LD and EBD: a synthesis of observation studies.(learning disabilities and emotional/behavioral disorders)(Statistical Data Included) Journal of Special Education; 3/22/2002; Bos, Candace S.
• Advanced Story Map Instruction: Effects on the Reading Comprehension of Students with Learning Disabilities. Journal of Special Education; 3/22/1999; Jitendra, Asha K.
• Vallecorsa, A. L., & deBettencourt, L. U. (1997). Using a mapping procedure to teach reading and writing skills to middle grade students with learning disabilities. Education and Treatment of Children, 20, 173-188.
• Idol, L., & Croll, V. J. (1987). Story-mapping training as a means of improving reading comprehension. Learning Disability Quarterly, 10, 214-229.
• Mathes, P. G., Fuchs, D., & Fuchs, L. (1997). Cooperative story mapping. Remedial and Special Education, 18, 20-27.

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