This report on Idaho's grant programs for reading improvement pinpoints two programs, the General Reading Improvement Program and the Reading Improvement with Phonics Program. The report states that the first program makes funds available to support kindergarten through sixth grade "reading recovery" or other locally developed methods…

Developed by a team of teachers, parents, school board members, community representatives, patrons, and Idaho State Department of Education specialists, this skill-based scope and sequence guide suggests target skills and offers sample assessment methods for use in reading instruction by teachers of grades K-6. The guide's purpose is to help build…