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EJ474774 PS521121

Title: Strategy Mastery by At-Risk Students: Not a Simple Matter.
Author(s): Deshler, Donald D.; Schumaker, Jean B.
Source: Elementary School Journal, v94 n2 p153-67 Nov 1993
Publication Date: 1993
Notes: Special Issue: Strategies Education.
ISSN: 0013-5984
Language: English
Document Type: Information Analysis (070); Journal articles (080); Reports--Descriptive (141)
Journal Announcement: CIJAPR1994

Reviews research on learning strategies instruction that has been conducted on students with learning disabilities. Outlines instructional principles on how to teach learning strategies to at-risk students, according to which teachers should teach prerequisite skills before strategy instruction begins; teach regularly and intensively; emphasize personal effort; require mastery; emphasize covert processing; and emphasize generalization. (MDM)

Descriptors: Educational Principles; Educational Research; Elementary Secondary Education; *High Risk Students; *Learning Disabilities; *Learning Strategies; Special Education; *Teaching Methods
Identifiers: *Strategy Instruction Approach; Strategy Training