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CASE STUDY: Alex has just begun attending a new elementary school. She is nervous about meeting new friends and having new teachers. She finds that schoolwork at her new school seems much harder than at her previous school. The difficulties she was having at her old school seem even worse here. She is a very fluent reader but she cannot seem to answer questions about what she has just read. She is very accurate in math (computation,) but the word problems cause her a great deal of frustration. Alex is very popular with her peers and makes friends easily. However, her teachers are always telling her to "be still, stop talking out of turn, and stay in your seat." Alex loves to tell stories and is very creative. If her teachers would let her tell stories instead of write them, she would get better grades. She has difficulty getting her thoughts down on paper and her handwriting is very messy. Alex loves school and wants to do well, but she sometimes feels that she does everything wrong.
In regard to Alex's difficulty with reading comprehension and math word problems, which of the instructional methods discussed in this chapter would be the most effective? Support your answer with information from the text and provide examples of how your selected instructional method could be used.

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