Teachers have succeeded in teaching at-risk students, including those
with learning disabilities, to master and apply complex learning strat
egies. The majority of this instruction has been provided in resource
rooms or other remedial settings where intensive and systematic instru
ction has been possible. Increasingly, teachers in regular classrooms
are being asked to provide learning strategy instruction to diverse cl
asses that include students with disabilities. This expectation presen
ts many challenges to the classroom teacher, including the creation of
an instructional balance between content and strategies instruction w
hile at the same time ensuring both the interest and growth of all stu
dents in an academically diverse class. In this article we review the
results of a line of programmatic research on learning strategies inst
ruction that has been conducted on students with learning disabilities
. From this research, a set of instructional principles about how to t
each learning strategies to at-risk students has emerged. These princi
ples and implications for teaching strategies to at-risk students in r
egular classrooms are presented.