Learning Interventions among Children with Learning Disabilities

Learning Interventions among Children with Learning DisabilitiesNameInstitutional AffiliationDateVocabulary Instruction
Successful reading involves the identification of vocabularies and getting to know their meaning. Most of the capable readers often have sophisticated vocabulary since they expose themselves to content across different genres. Children with the learning challenges or learning disabilities will often avoid reading books independently since they do not find any motivation to do so. This will limit their exposure to new vocabularies and they will have a low performance as compared to their peers who have exposure CITATION Wan12 \l 1033 (Wanzek & Kent, 2012). The intervention involves identifying vocabularies in the text or passage and informing the children about its meaning. Scammatta et al (2007) used the intervention by separating children in to two groups. In the first group, the students were told to identify vocabularies and the teacher explained the meaning of each of the vocabularies to them while in the second group it was not done. The findings showed that students who were taught the meanings of the vocabularies were more likely to know their meanings and context as compared to the ones who did not participate. Under this intervention, teachers expose children with the LD to new vocabulary on a regular basis to increase exposure CITATION Sca07 \l 1033 (Scammacca, Roberts, Vaughn, Edmonds, & Wexler, 2007). They will perform much be...