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Teaching Children With Language-Learning Disabilities to Plan and Revise Compare–Contrast Texts

Writing Instruction in Middle Schools: Special and General Education Teachers Share Their Views and Voice Their Concerns

Gary Troia's research interests include the connections between oral language and literacy in typical and atypical learners, writing assessment and instruction, and teacher professional development in literacy. His recent work involves examining alignment between states' content standards and assessment frameworks in writing and how alignment between these influences writing outcomes and enables students to meet postsecondary writing expectations. He also is examining predictors of writing quality within a multi-level linguistic framework to help researchers and educators develop better measurement tools for writing.

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