With todays' students spending increasing amounts of time involved in online activities, there is a growing need to study their online reading habits. Indeed, it is not only students' out-of-class engagement with electronic media that calls for increased attention to the reading skill, in general, and online reading, in particular, but it is also…

Reading First has been implemented in Nebraska since the 2004-5 academic year. In two rounds of funding and participation, schools have transformed the way they trained their teachers, measured student progress, and taught. This transformation is one of the hardest tasks in education and it has taken the considerable dedication of school personnel…

SOME GUIDELINES FOR TEACHING THE PHONETIC ANALYSIS OF WORDS IN GRADES THREE AND FOUR ARE PRESENTED. ALL ELEMENTS INVOLVED IN THE TEACHING OF READING SKILLS, INCLUDING PHONETIC ANALYSIS, COMPREHENSION, AND ORAL READING, ARE COVERED. THE GUIDE PROVIDES EXAMPLES OF CHECKLISTS FOR COMPREHENSION SKILLS AND ORAL READING. (BK)

The teaching of reading is an important aspect of the total Adult Basic Education (ABE) program. The basic problem was: How is the teaching of reading in Nebraska being carried out? In trying to answer this question the document lays the groundwork by opening with a review of related literature and then discusses in detail the type of data…