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Critical Dimensions of Instruction for Teaching Reading to Individuals with Learning Disabilities


  1. Preview

    1. Impact of effective teachers is profound and long lasting

    2. No simple answer to what makes some teachers "so good"

    3. Three critical dimensions of instruction characterize instruction of teachers especially effective in teaching reading to students with learning disabilities

    4. Emphasis given to each dimension varies from one teaching situation to another and with regard to needs of students

    5. Critical dimensions referred to throughout modules of online course and are at heart of all effective reading instruction

  2. Overview

    1. Focus on critical dimensions of instruction

    2. Compelling goal for effective teachers: reading is vitally important

    3. Purpose and goals of lesson

  3. Responsive Instruction

    1. Instruction which is shaped by students' reactions

    2. Includes continuous assessment

    3. Includes instructional accommodation

    4. Includes elaborated feedback

  4. Systematic Instruction

    1. A way of organizing learning experiences so that teacher and student follow and review a dynamic plan related to learning

    2. Includes instruction that is structured

    3. Includes instruction that is connected

    4. Includes instruction that is scaffolded

    5. Includes instruction that is informative

  5. Intensive Instruction

    1. Teacher-guided interactive learning that results in goal-directed student engagement

    2. Includes sufficient time

    3. Includes effective use of each instructional moment

  6. Review and Preview

    1. Review of Lesson Two

    2. Preview of Lesson Three


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