Publication Date
7-1-1980
Abstract
As high school teachers of reading and English know, some students in their classrooms are poor in all areas of language. They read on a fourth-grade level; they write and spell so as to obscure most communication; they speak in simple sentences; their listening ability is so low that they can't seem to follow most directions. What can we do to fill in the innumerable gaps in all these areas? It is the purpose of this article to present two ways to improve a student's level of language development: 1) daily exposure to good literature in the original (not adapted to a fourth grade level) and 2) daily lessons in syntactical manipulation and sentence combining, including the use of language games.
Recommended Citation
Mavrogenes, N. A. (1980). Suggestions for Improving the Language Development of Disabled Secondary Readers. Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts, 20 (4). Retrieved from https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/reading_horizons/vol20/iss4/5
