The purpose of this digest is to review various interpretations of balanced reading instruction and to explore the relationship between this instructional approach to beginning reading and state reading standards. Sections of the digest address what balanced reading is, offer examples from classroom practice, and discuss reading instruction and…

Proposes the need to isolate differences in languages and universally define reading failure. (TO)

Discusses the importance of speech skills as antecedents to learning word perception skills in beginning reading. (RB)

Outlines assumptions about reading instruction and presents seven ways in which these assumptions are reflected in practice. (RB)

Purpose of the study was to determine if personological and methodological factors interact as predicted with the ultimate aim being to discover ways to optimize the teaching of word attack skills. (Author/RK)

Results of this study suggest that, for primary level children, the natural'' perceptual unit of spoken language is the syllable, not the phoneme. (Authors)

The use of diacritical marking facilitates learning to read and the benefits are neither specific to reading in that medium nor to reading in general. It may well prove that the most significant improvements are in the field of writing. (Authors/MB)

First-grade teacher describes her program of having each student responsible for teaching'' one book to other students. (SP)

Discussion and results of a study made to indentify and quantify the reading interests of preschool children. (RB)