Since 2007, nineteen Houston Independent School District (HISD) campuses have partnered with Literacy Now to offer the Reading Intervention program. The Reading Intervention program provides individualized, small group reading tutorials for at-risk students in kindergarten to second grade to create proficient readers by the end of third grade.…

This article describes the experiences of some of the many families of the deaf and hard of hearing children who come to Shared Reading Saturdays at Northern Essex Community College (NECC) in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The program, which includes monthly gatherings and is coordinated by the NECC's Gallaudet University Regional Center, features deaf…

Thousands of students in California learn English as a second language in schools that utilize exclusively monolingual--English Only--literacy programs. With such programs students do not have the opportunity to use the knowledge of their first language in order to acquire and master their second language. The project of cooperative bi-literacy…

Explains a program which involves parents as equal partners, sharing the responsibility for their children's education. (MKM)

Describes a method of teaching reading which makes use of volunteers, including parents, students, and retired citizens. (RB)

Describes PEPPER (Parent Education Program to Pep-up Every Reader), a reading program for second graders that requires parental participation. (RB)

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)

Describes a program, launched by the New Haven (Connecticut) Public School System, that involved parents, as well as other members of the family, in a variety of activities that promoted reading growth of children. (Author/RK)

Describes a variety of programs (Parents Sharing Books, Teachers Under Cover, Project SOAR, Family Connections through Reading, Technology Connections, Middle Grades Reading Network, Multicultural Awareness through Reading, Reading Excitement and Paperbacks, and Literacy Lunches) that helped create a community of readers at a middle school. (RS)

As part of a series of publications reporting the promising practices gleaned from pre-elementary Right to Read programs, this guidebook introduces its readers to the format used to describe the promising practices, provides statistical and descriptive information about the pre-elementary Right to Read programs, and describes each of the four…

Describes programs such as "Read Together" and the "Gift Book Program" that were developed by "Beginning with Books," a prevention-oriented literacy agency affiliated with the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Discusses projects that promote literacy in home and community. (MG)

Describes seven proposals to increase parent participation in their children's reading, which have been funded through grants from the Children's Book Council. (MKM)

A summer reading clinic sponsors workshops to involve parents in their children's reading instruction. (MKM)