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Assessing Dyslexia at Six Year of Age
Published on: May 1, 2020
Source interpretation: teaching students with and without LD to read and write historically
Susan De La Paz1, Petra Morales, Philip M Winston
1Dept of Education, Santa Clara University, CA 95053, USA. sdelapaz@scu.edu
Abstract:
We review domain-specific teaching approaches for students with learning disabilities in social studies, then present De La Paz's 2005 historical reasoning strategy so that readers understand the rationale for and have information on each stage of instruction. Next, we highlight the role of self-regulation for the reasoning process. We then turn to describing the role of each teacher (Morales as the social studies educator and Winston as the special educator), first as they collaborate with De La Paz and each other, then as Morales works alone, 1 year later. Implications are given for changes in teaching. The topic of women's suffrage is used throughout the article to highlight the teaching approach and to present student work.
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