The Effective Instructional Strategies Series is a collection of six booklets based on the components used in Pacific Communities with High-performance In Literacy Development (Pacific CHILD), a principles-based professional development program consisting of research-based teaching and learning strategies proven to help improve students' reading…

This toolkit provides activities and resources to assist practitioners in designing and delivering intensive interventions in reading and mathematics for K-12 students with significant learning difficulties and disabilities. Grounded in research, this toolkit is based on the Center on Instruction's "Intensive Interventions for Students Struggling…

The authors explore the educational implications of research indicating that braille words and letters form a mutually beneficial partnership. Instructional applications are considered, and the authors suggest that practice in character recognition in word contexts will enhance reading skill. (Author/CL)

The article describes the Alphabetic Phonics Teacher Training Programs which focuses on incorporating multisensory instruction with a more "old-fashioned" phonics-first basic presentation of reading for dyslexic children. Suggestions are made for infusing the approach into the regular classroom and into teacher preparation programs. (CL)

The continuous stroke print program is intended to lead up to cursive writing by teaching printing using a consistent letter slant and a flowing rhythm absent in the traditional ball-stick method. This approach is also helpful in reading. (CL)

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

Among 15 activities described as effective reading enrichment approaches are setting up a classroom museum, performing tasks involving telephone books, and explaining myths and legends. (CL)

A teacher reviews 11 guidelines he uses to help special and regular education students learn to read. His list touches on such aspects as use of pre- and posttests, individualized sessions, cursive writing instruction after mastery of specific survival skills, and opportunities for physical activities. (CL)

The article describes a procedure for teaching sound-letter relations and sound blending through a verbal/gestural prompting system and a variation of melodic intonation therapy (in which students learn simultaneously to talk and hum a monotone note). The three-step procedure features demonstration, prompting, and practice. (CL)

Examples are presented of lessons intended to help learning disabled students develop such critical reading skills as distinguishing fact from opinion, identifying propaganda techniques, and understanding figurative language. The lessons are designed to remedy the frequent over-reliance on questions calling for immediate recall rather than…

Books in which illustrations, rather than words, carry the story line are helpful in teaching hearing impaired students to read. Suggestions are made for using this approach with beginning readers, students in grades 3 through 6, and advanced readers. An annotated list of sources is also included. (CL)

Offers reasons why teachers should focus on silent reading during instruction and use oral reading only for specific instructional purposes. (FL)

Offers suggestions for making newspaper activities part of the reading curriculum. (FL)

Presents an instructional strategy designed to teach inferential comprehension to primary grade children through the use of prior knowledge and prereading activities. (FL)

Describes how fourth- and fifth-grade students perform Shakespeare and improve their reading skills at the same time. (DD)