This paper describes a pilot study conducted with English as a foreign language (EFL) students at a private university in Japan who used graded readers and the MReader website in class or independently to enhance their English reading skills. Each semester students who read 100,000 words with MReader quizzes passed enter into the "MReader…

Teachers at a Title I elementary school in South Carolina implemented the scripted Reading Mastery© program (RMP) to improve students' comprehension. Comprehension scores did not increase, despite teachers receiving RMP professional development (PD) prior to implementing the program. Administrators were unaware if the teachers were adequately…

The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of PALS (Peer Assisted Learning Strategies) for students who struggle with reading in first grade. Two groups of children were compared in terms of their reading fluency. The groups included English language learners (ELL) well as native English speakers. One group was instructed using the…

Suggests that by modifying the manner in which workbook pages are presented to students, teachers can increase their effectiveness as teaching tools. (FL)

Eight major problems basal readers present to hearing impaired children are reviewed for regular classroom teachers, and suggestions are made for using the readers effectively and substituting alternative programs. (MC)

Investigates the effects of a classroom reading program in which students who passed pretests on basal skills were excused from subsequent instruction and practice on those skills. Finds that most students were able to pass pretests on reading skills before the skills were covered in the basal reading program. (RS)

Provides a number of techniques that teachers can use to teach concepts, fluent reading skills, and analytical thinking through basal reading series. (FL)

Describes an approach to reading instruction that uses children's literature to complement basal reading instruction to create a literacy environment that teaches children to develop a lifelong love of reading. (MG)

A total reading program must provide for the sequential development of reading skills and the deliberate development of interest in reading. The prime means of accomplishing the goals of skills and interest in reading is use of a basal reading program along with independent reading. The basal reader is designed to provide for the sequential…

Explains how reading skills prescribed in basal readers can be recast and taught as reading strategies. (FL)

The practice of using basal readers as the main source of reading instruction has become a controversial issue in recent years. Several negative aspects of this practice have been cited, including: (1) a focus on isolated skill development or abstract parts of the reading process; (2) a failure to recognize individual learning styles; and (3) a…

Analyzes two basals designed for use by remedial readers for their literature content and for their portrayal of reading attitudes. Concludes that both series make some attempt to portray attitudes toward reading and that both used informational selections more than other types of literature. (FL)

This article documents evaluations of the New Primary Grades Reading System (NRS). NRS was implemented in a variety of settings. Evaluations track implementation from early stages of pilot testing through large-scale adoption of NRS. Accumulation of evidence regarding success of innovation across settings allows greater confidence in conclusions…

Second-grade students were divided into groups subjected to three programs namely, Direct Instruction, Open Court and literature based program, in order to determine the effectiveness of the three programs. The results indicated that the Open Court and Direct Instruction programs did not improve the children's reading.

A study was conducted (1) to determine if children select some strategies more frequently than others to comprehend story categories, and (2) to find out if children are able to talk about what they are thinking and doing as they read stories from a basal reader. Subjects, 30 second grade students reading at grade level, were randomly assigned to…