The Guidelines and Standards of the Reading Recovery Council of North America require that a Reading Recovery teacher "teach at least four children individually for 30 minutes daily in a school setting." This guideline may be perceived as constrictive or arbitrary, but it was established because of the importance to Reading Recovery…

This updated and expanded resource on the mathematics and reading tutoring programs list of national service and Federal Work-Study tutoring programs includes publications, videos, and Web sites that have been developed by the Corporation for National Service or the U.S. Department of Education and their partners in support of work in literacy,…

Examining the origin and accomplishments of the Lancastrian monitorial system of instruction, this paper discusses the influence of that system on American education. It gives a brief history of how Joseph Lancaster became involved in reading instruction and how he was a pioneer in emphasizing a reading curriculum that was written down. It then…

Today, contrary to Euclid's view of things as they are, people are told that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Nowhere apparently has the concept of the whole been ignored more than in the teaching of reading. The "see and say" (holistic) approach, introduced in the early fifties, still dominates the classroom. Readers and…

The America Reads Challenge, created in 1997, is a nationwide effort to expand the use of volunteers to help ensure that all children can read "well and independently by the end of third grade." State involvement in the America Reads Challenge has been primarily through the Federal Work Study (FWS) program for college students. The…

Preschool children can learn to read in a way that is developmentally and culturally appropriate if they are presented with the necessary supports. Provocative activities, enrichment centers of excellence, and creating print-rich environments for young children are described. Includes a chart listing the critical elements of centers of…

This textbook is a pictorial Japanese-language reading primer in for primary students. Lessons are in English with phonetic Japanese spelling.

Presents results of a questionnaire profiling duties and concerns of state and provincial reading consultants in the United States and Canada. (TO)

Examines two recent reports on special reading difficulties and standards of reading published by the Department of Education and Science in Great Britain. (TO)

Reviews the use of the term "disadvantaged," describes how it has been applied to students, and defines it as it will be used throughout this series of six articles. (TO)

The teaching of reading is a many faceted enterprise which requires knowledges ranging from economics to political science and skills ranging from understanding the decoding process to writing an attractive grant proposal. (Author/RB)

Presents a teaching technique for instructing students to understand the elements of a paragraph. (RB)