Describes the reading program a Taylors Elementary School (in Taylors, South Carolina), which is one of several reading programs selected as exemplary at the 1993 International Reading Association convention. (SR)

Describes the reading program at Butcher Children's School (an elementary laboratory school for Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas), one of several school reading programs selected as exemplary at the 1993 International Reading Association convention. (SR)

Describes the Charlottesville (Virginia) Volunteer Tutorial, a one-on-one tutorial program that promotes the literacy development of young children and involves a wide range of community volunteers. Suggests that the program offers one model of an affordable, alternative form of early intervention. (SR)

Describes six kinds of inservice reading programs recently conducted in the New Haven public schools. (MB)

Reviews ERIC materials dealing with effective tutoring programs. (FL)

Describes a reading program designed to help slow readers bridge the summer gap between the first and second grade. (RB)

Describes a service learning program with a focus on literacy called the Student Literacy Corps. Describes how urban elementary school children, college students, professors, administrators, and community members worked, shared, and learned together. Includes a sample lesson. (SR)

Describes what reading coaches do (provide literacy enrichment without emphasizing the diagnostic and intervention aspects of reading), how this differs from reading tutors, and how reading coaches can help with literacy development in schools. Discusses activities for reading coaches, and benefits of a reading coach program. (SR)

Clarifies the roles of the Office of Education, the National Reading Council, and the National Reading Center in the national right to read effort. (VJ)

Compares the elementary reading programs in the two countries and describes the remedial programs in Hamburg. (RB)

Describes how to have the advantages of an open school in older classroom spaces, using team teaching, learning stations, and a group rotation schedule. (RB)

Describes the reading program at Ganado Primary School (selected as exemplary at the 1993 annual International Reading Association convention), part of a schoolwide literate environment that encourages children to become self-actualizing and self-assured learners. (SR)

Describes (as part of a series of articles describing exemplary school reading programs) several innovative programs designed to connect home, school, and classroom at Baltimore Highlands Elementary School. (SR)