Cognitive Strategy Instruction for Improving Expository Text Comprehension of Students With Learning Disabilities: The Quality of Evidence

Exceptional Children

Jitendra, A. K., Burgess, C., et al. (2011).

Exceptional Children, 77(2), 135-159.

This review investigates the effects of cognitive strategy instruction on the comprehension of expository text in school-aged children with learning disabilities.

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1978-January 2009

Randomized controlled trials; quasi-experimental studies; single-subject studies

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Based on the findings from 18 experimental or quasi-experimental group design studies, cognitive strategy instruction is an evidence-based treatment for teaching comprehension of expository text to children with learning disabilities.