Gives specific ideas for encouraging students to be flexible in their approach to decoding words. (MKM)

Research suggests that parent involvement improves academic achievement, but in the busy world in which we live it is often difficult to promote. Many researchers suggest that successful programs value parents' limited time constraints, diversity of literacy skills, and availability of materials. The Great Poetry Race provides an easy vehicle to…

Describes a method of increasing vocabulary recognition of Chapter 1 elementary students by using mastery words from basal programs, sight word cards, and modified cloze stories. (MG)

Suggests a variety of class activities using word banks. (MKM)

Reports a study of fourteen word lists and proposes a basic list of 240 starter words. (TO)

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

Reports that teaching educable mentally handicapped children to compare unknown words to words they already have in their sight vocabularies seems to improve their reading abilities. (FL)