The Magnolia Speech School for the Deaf (Jackson, Mississippi) provides an intensive reading program for five preschool children. The program consists of four areas: the story reading session, primer reading, vocabulary development, and phonics. (SB)

Describes a reading program that uses a combination of basal readers to teach beginning reading. (RB)

Various aspects of beginning reading programs in six countries are discussed in the five articles in this booklet. In the first article, the principles and methods of instruction used in Sweden are described and trends in beginning reading instruction are noted. The importance of a verbal environment, teacher competence, and early diagnosis in…

This pamphlet describes the Texas Reading Initiative, a comprehensive plan aimed at improving reading instruction in Texas and begun after a challenge was issued by Governor George W. Bush that each and every child must learn to read. It lists the 8 key elements that were established to guide the initiative (including increasing awareness of…

From a 9,000-word lexicon, a set of spelling-to-sound correspondences was developed to systematically organize possible content for beginning reading instruction. With the aid of computer sorting procedures, correspondences and correspondence exemplars were sequenced according to criteria of productivity, regularity, generalizability, and…

Describes and evaluates "Breakthrough to Literacy," a beginning reading scheme based on the language experience approach and launched in Saskatoon, Canada schools in 1974. (RB)

Suggesting that Reading Recovery belongs on the restructuring agenda of American education, this booklet introduces educators and others to how Reading Recovery works, how teachers are trained to use the program, and how it can be implemented in a school or district. Sections of the booklet are: Introduction; Overview of Reading Recovery; How…

An elementary school in Texas has developed a program of reading instruction that immediately provides early readers with ample reading opportunities and materials rather than constraining them with "reading readiness" assessment. Initially, the absence of sufficient reinforcement material in the basal readers required increased amounts of reading…

Intended for reading teachers and school administrators, this paper proposes a whole language, comprehension based approach to reading instruction that is rooted in the humanistic acceptance of the learner as problem solver and that builds on strengths and minimizes preoccupation with reading deficiency. Following an introduction and rationale for…

Describes a preschool program that introduces four-year-olds to print concepts such as left to right, top to bottom, words beginning with the same sound, and upper and lower case letters. (AEA)

Calling attention to the continuum of approaches reflected in beginning reading programs, this report presents content and cost analyses for over 50 beginning reading programs. The first of the report's five chapters is an introduction. The second chapter begins with a brief description of the major issues in the area of beginning reading and…

Forty-three reading programs identified by Kentucky school districts are briefly described. Program descriptions are organized into four sections: lower elementary, upper elementary, intermediate middle school, and secondary school. Within each section, programs based on a variety of philosophies and approaches are presented. (AA)

The purpose of the study contained in this report is to provide research and design data for the Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) Mod 2 Reading Program, a four-year program (K-3) for teaching reading skills to primary-grade children. The report is divided into two volumes. Volume one describes sequencing and methodology, and the specific rule…

The No Child Left Behind program changes the federal role in education by asking America's schools to describe their success in terms of what each student accomplishes. The information in this reading guide was developed by the United States Department of Education to assist parents, caregivers, and teachers in understanding the importance of…

The No Child Left Behind program changes the federal role in education by asking America's schools to describe their success in terms of what each student accomplishes. The information in this reading guide, presented in Spanish, was developed by the United States Department of Education to assist parents, caregivers, and teachers in understanding…