In this article we present an integrated literacy curriculum for special education students that was designed to promote classroom discourse for negotiating and constructing meanings in reading and writing. Project principles and activities are discussed, with a focus both on how teachers lead their students' literacy development and on how such instruction affects their special education students' literacy knowledge and performance.
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