This slide presentation outlines one state's (Utah) version of implementation of a model for literacy learning under the Reading Excellence Act (REA). According to the presentation, the model is called "The Utah Reads K-3 Literacy Model." The presentation is divided into the following sections: Utah's Vision: What We've Learned So Far;…

This collection of PowerPoint slides describes the Reading Excellence Program, a $260 million federal grant program that will competitively award grants to states to improve reading. It begins with a reference to the book "Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children," then presents a graph indicating percentage of fourth graders not able to…

It is only by the considered and judicious use of a range of methodologies that educators, policymakers and the public can make real advances to the system for teaching students to reach their full reading potential. By limiting reading instruction research to experimental and quasiexperimental studies, the National Reading Panel missed critical…

This article introduces Making and Writing Words Using Letter Patterns (MWW-LP), a variation of the popular Making Words word study and spelling instructional activity. Research indicates that proficient readers use knowledge of letter patterns such as onsets, rimes, and affixes to decode unknown words. The MWW-LP activity uses such letter…

The phonic method of teaching has many great advantages; so also has the indispensable word method; and the much derided alphabet method is too valuable to be neglected. It is evident that the system of greatest efficiency in teaching reading is that which seeks to utilize and harmonize all the devices that have proved to be of most worth in all…

An on-site description attempts to offer ideas that can be considered, adapted, and improved upon for reading programs. (RB)

Encourages placing primary emphasis on reading as a process of deriving meaning in remedial reading programs and discusses the changes necessary to accomplish this approach. (TO)

Suggests restructuring the elementary school staff to better use each individual's talents and skills and to facilitate teachers' learning from one another. (TO)

Attempts to resolve the contradiction between motivating children and teaching them certain reading skills by organizing them into two complementary types of groups, direct instruction and independent activities. (RB)

Discusses documents in the ERIC system on reading games appropriate for individualized or group instruction in the elementary grades. (RB)

Research results show that there are no significant differences between teachers of the DISTAR reading program and teachers of basal reader programs in beliefs or degree of open-mindedness. (HMD)

Suggests using the cloze procedure as a means of quickly, efficiently, and accurately matching students with appropriate reading materials. (TO)

Surveys how children develop their powers of word identification, and questions common assumptions about the utility of sight words. (TO)

Lists ten ideas designed to improve the reading skills of high school students. (RB)

Suggests several variations of a game designed to enhance students' active and passive vocabularies. (TO)