This paper provides a brief review of the professional literature as it is
related to reading-disabled students and their inability to maintain
attention during reading instruction. Factors that can cause or contri
bute to reading-disabled pupils' inability to attend during reading are
delineated General strategies which reading teachers and specialists can
use to increase their disabled readers' attention are described Also,
specific instructional techniques that educators can use to facilitate
reading-disabled students' attention during instruction are noted.
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