After briefly outlining the purpose of the National Diffusion Network (NDN), this article describes five reading programs judged by NDN to be exemplary. Each description includes target audience, content, evidence of effectiveness, implementation requirements, costs, and contact address. Three are primary programs, two elementary, and four…

Briefly describes Witchita's Team Oriented Corrective Reading (TOCR) program for grades 1-8 and reports that a dissemination grant from the National Diffusion Network is helping spread the program to schools in other states and in Mexico. (SJL)

Provides information on the federally sponsored National Diffusion Network and describes how one exemplary reading program was transferred to a school across the continent. (MKM)

Describes Project READ:S (Reading Education Accountability Design: Secondary), which is designed to improve the teaching of reading in the content areas. Notes that this project has been approved by the National Diffusion Network for exemplary program status. (FL)

The New York City Board of Education's Title I program, "Learning to Read through the Arts," teaches skills in reading through involvement in the arts, builds self-confidence, improves self-image, and adds to the experiences of the participating children. If children are able to read material and apply the information thus acquired to…