USING THE NEW BASALS TO TEACH THE WRITING PROCESS: MODIFICATIONS FOR STUDENTS WITH LEARNING PROBLEMS

Teachers who rely on basal textbooks to teach writing to students with learning problems may not be meeting their students' needs sufficiently. In this article, we summarize research for teaching writing to students with learning problems. From the literature review, we developed a checklist of...

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Published in:Reading & writing quarterly 2001-01, Vol.17 (1), p.75-92
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