Summarizes several key findings of National Reading Panel report that identified scientifically credible research on reading instruction. For example, explicit instruction in phonemic awareness improves a child's reading and spelling skills. Recommends that school districts commit resources for teacher professional development to capitalize on…

Rafe Esquith has taught for 23 years at Hobart Boulevard Elementary School in Los Angeles. In a neighborhood plagued by gangs, guns, and drugs, his is a special classroom known as Room 56. Within its walls, children living in poverty play Vivaldi concertos, perform unabridged plays by Shakespeare, and go on to attend top universities. In 2003,…

The Progress in Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) was developed to help improve the teaching of reading and the acquisition of reading skills around the world, and was approved by the IEA (International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement) General Assembly as an essential component of the IEA's regular cycle of core studies,…

This textbook is a reader with selections from familiar and popular ballads and tales relating to historic or legendary incidents and personages that have become famous in literature. Such selections as these, put into the hands of the young, will tend to foster a wholesome enjoyment of reading and to develop a fondness for books. They introduce…

This textbook is a course in first-grade reading. The goal is to approach the matter of primary reading both from the standpoint of the latest investigations in primary reading and also through the eyes of the child himself, keeping in mind environmental handicaps, lack of experience of many teachers, over-large classes, and other features that…

This textbook is a third reader. Selections are poems and stories of fairy life intended to spark the pupil's imagination and, in some cases, impart moral values.

THIRTY-FOUR TEACHERS OF GRADES ONE THROUGH SIX WERE ASKED TO REPORT THE CHANGES IN READING GROUP COMPOSITION IN THEIR CLASSROOMS OVER A PERIOD OF 17 WEEKS. TWENTY-SIX TEACHERS HAD AT LEAST 3 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AND WERE SUPERVISING STUDENT TEACHERS. THE OTHER EIGHT HAD 2 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AND HAD COMPLETED A GRADUATE COURSE IN READING. THEY WERE…

Describes the development of the Revised Dolch List and the advantages of the newer list over the older one. The Revised Dolch List is included in the article. (TJ)

This textbook is a second-year reader. Bearing in mind the fact that only those children who like to read ever become good readers, the author has endeavored so to construct and arrange the several lessons as to make each reading exercise a source of pleasure to all. Illustrations are intended to be valuable aids towards making the reading…

This textbook is a third-year reader. Bearing in mind the fact that only those children who like to read ever become good readers, the author has endeavored so to construct and arrange the several lessons as to make each reading exercise a source of pleasure to all. Illustrations are intended to be valuable aids towards making the reading exercise…

Argues that various forms of drama such as synchronized movement, pantomime, and improvisation are natural companions to reading instruction. (Author/FL)

Suggests ways to use poems to enliven reading instruction. (DD)

Offers views on the reading-spelling relationship by two spelling researchers, Jerry Zutell and J. Richard Gentry. Points out that all research supports some degree of formal word study. (MG)

Students' literacy achievement tends to lessen as they progress from elementary to middle level to high school as measured by state and national assessments. To ensure that secondary school students retain their literacy skills, many states and districts have created the position of literacy coach for middle and high schools. Literacy coaches are…