Describes six Right to Read programs funded by Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title II grants.

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

Describes a reading program based on community-school cooperation. (RB)

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)

Describes how elementary educators (a principal, a reading supervisor, and two first-grade teachers) collaborated to develop research-based procedures to help at-risk first-graders to become "word detectives." (SR)

Describes a reading program being used in Akron Public Schools in which students in Chapter 1 classes and their parents participate in paired reading on a daily basis to improve their child's reading ability and confidence. (MG)

Describes how one school-based program (Parents as Partners in Reading) continued to influence the ways in which a group of low-income mothers assisted other low-income mothers and fathers in sharing books with their children after the program developer was no longer actively involved in monitoring the book-reading program. (SR)

Presents the strategies and guidelines upon which effective school outreach programs can be built and offers a look into one elementary school's efforts to involve parents in an innercity district. (SR)

Describes a home-based family literacy intervention with a mother and her four children. Highlights the importance of motivation and family involvement in developing literacy skills.(SR)

Describes a program intended to help students reflect on, discuss, and evaluate their reading and their accomplishments related to reading. Notes that the program uses a set of materials and procedures based on a Native American winter count (an animal hide or cloth on which the Yankton Sioux recorded important events). (SR)

Describes a year long literacy improvement project in two third-grade classrooms that focused on struggling readers. Describes small-group reading instruction in the classrooms that focused on 3 components: rereading familiar texts; shared and guided reading, incorporating strategy use in decoding unfamiliar words; and shared and guided writing.…

Describes "Reading Clubs," a program designed and carried out by two first-grade teachers in which small groups of students (primarily second-language learners) thought to be at risk for failure were coached daily. Notes that 19 of the targeted 23 students were successful enough to move with their peers to second grade. (SR)

Describes a case study of a sixth-grade student experiencing profound difficulties in learning to read, and the instructional intervention that helped him make significant progress. Comments on the public school's responsibility to provide effective remedial instruction. (SR)

Describes a reading intervention program that combined a modified enrichment program with cross-age tutoring and that resulted in significant gains in reading for both students and tutors. (SR)