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	Frequently Asked Questions -- Reading First
		Reading must come first, and focused, federal initiatives will provide effective and meaningful support to states and districts in their crucial efforts to make all children successful, fluent readers by the end of third grade.
		First, improving the reading skills of children is a top national and state priority.
		Reading First is a bold, new national initiative squarely aimed at helping every child in every state become a successful reader.
	www.ed.gov /programs/readingfirst/faq.html (2080 words)

	LITES - New Mexico Reading First FAQ's cont'd
		Reading First funds may be used for personnel; however, the emphasis will be to build the capacity of the school and district to sustain reading improvement beyond the period of the award.
		Reading First is not intended to be a pull-out program in which students are taken out of their classes to receive reading instruction from a teacher who works in isolation from the rest of the teaching staff.
		Reading First funds may be used for professional development to train teachers already in the schools so that, when Reading First funds run out, those teachers will have the knowledge and expertise to continue the program.
	www.nmlites.org /programs/readingfirst/faq_4.html (603 words)

	Reading Rockets: First Year Teacher: Module 6: Fluency
		For the first reading, the student should follow along with the tape, pointing to each word in her or his book as the reader reads it.
		Reading along with the tape should continue until the student is able to read the book independently, without the support of the tape.
		In another form of partner reading, children who read at the same level are paired to reread a story that they have received instruction on during a teacher-guided part of the lesson.
	www.readingrockets.org /firstyear/fyt.php?CAT=11 (1760 words)

	Reading First
		Reading First is a nationwide effort to enable all students to become successful readers at an early age.
		Reading First focuses on five elements in reading: vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, phonics, and phonemic awareness.
		Many effective reading programs use decodable texts, books in which all or most of the words are easy for students to read by applying the phonics skills that reflect the sequence of sound-letter relationships that have already been taught.
	www.alphaapple.com /ReadingFirst.html (1803 words)

	Reading First
		Reading First is a classroom-focused nationwide effort designed to help each and every student become a successful reader.
		Reading First establishes clear, specific expectations for what can and should happen for all students.
		Reading First specifies that teachers' classroom instructional decisions must be informed by scientifically based reading research.
	www.linden.k12.nj.us /files/readingfirst.htm (287 words)

	New Mexico Reading First (NMRF)
		Reading First, unlike previous national reading programs, is a classroom-focused nationwide effort designed to help each and every student become a successful leader.
		Reading First contributes to these high expectations by steadfastly supporting high-quality local and state reading initiatives with the funds needed to make real improvements.
		At first the coaches and a small team of folks were collecting the data every other week and then the teacher collected once a month and the team once a month to maintain two data points a month.
	www.nmreadingfirst.org /FAQs.html (6188 words)

	First Grade
		Reads aloud with accuracy and comprehension any text that is appropriately designed for the first half of grade 1.
		Monitors own reading and self-corrects when an incorrectly identified word does not fit with cues provided by the letters in the word or the context surrounding the word.
		Reads and comprehends both fiction and nonfiction that is appropriately designed for grade level.
	www.ncrel.org /sdrs/areas/issues/content/cntareas/reading/li1lk13.htm (400 words)

	Michigan Reading First: Progress
		The Reading First legislation (Part B of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001) allocates funding for every state with an approved plan to provide assistance to high poverty schools with chronic low achievement scores in reading.
		Because of the low reading achievement that characterizes Reading First schools, these figures are the first signs that the provisions of Reading First incorporated in the Michigan plan can break the cycle of failure.
		The Reading First project hopes that the significant progress in the first years of Reading First are only the start of a successful initiative for struggling readers.
	www.mireadingfirst.org /announcements/progress/index.html (396 words)

	Reading (legislature) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Reading is a mechanism by which a bill is introduced to, and approved by a legislature.
		A second reading is the stage of the legislative process where a draft of a bill is read a second time.
		A third reading is the stage of a legislative process in which a bill is read with all amendments and given final approval by a legislative body.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_reading (493 words)

	ADE \| Arkansas Reading First
		Arkansas Reading First is a state initiative funded by the Federal Government as part of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
		Reading First grants assist Arkansas schools to implement proven methods of scientifically based reading instruction in classrooms in order to prevent reading difficulties in grades K-3.
		In the spring of 2003, Arkansas Reading First subgrants totaling almost nine million dollars were awarded to thirty-nine districts to develop Reading First programs in sixty-seven schools.
	arkedu.state.ar.us /nochild/reading_first.html (353 words)

	Reading Rockets : First Year Teachers
		Reading Rockets offers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better.
		Reading Rockets is a national multimedia project that offers research-based and best-practice information on teaching kids to read and helping those who struggle.
		Reading Rockets is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs.
	www.readingrockets.org /teachers/firstyear (465 words)

	Santa-Maria Bonita Schools: Reading
		Reading First is a federal grant program with the purpose of ensuring all children learn to read well by the end of third grade.
		In order to receive the federal grant monies, each state had to formulate a Reading First Plan that was approved by a panel of reading experts for the United States Department of Education.
		A Reading First grant is awarded for a period of three years with the possibility of a three-year extension if substantial progress in reading achievement occurs.
	www.smbsd.org /page.cfm?p=35 (347 words)

	Reading First (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		After the National Reading Panel met and determined that the teaching of reading accomplishes more when based on well-researched programs and techniques, the grant was awarded to schools willing to be involved in the professional development and implementation of “best practices.” Roosevelt Elementary is one of the selected schools.
		As well as these assessments, students in first and second grades are given the ITBS test at the end of the year.
		Reading First has enabled your child in Roosevelt Elementary to receive instruction via Open Court, a rigorous, scientifically researched reading program proven to teach most children to read when well presented by trained and efficient teachers.
	www.roosevelt.esc17.net /elementary/Readingfirst.htm (747 words)

	PBS Parents . Reading and Language . About My First Grader . Reading Milestones \| PBS
		Reading books that are too difficult is often frustrating, especially for beginning readers.
		Most first graders read word-by-word instead of in phrases, and they read fairly slowly, especially if they are reading a book for the first time.
		While your first grader cannot correct all the errors she makes in reading, she is beginning to learn some strategies to "fix" her mistakes.
	www.pbs.org /parents/readinglanguage/first/reading_milestone_first.html (694 words)

	Reading First (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		All Reading First schools (Cohort A and B) are required to administer Reading First assessments according to the Assessment Framework.
		Additional Reading First Grants Awarded - New York State Education Department is pleased to announce the recipients of additional Reading First grant awards.
		Reading First - LEA Funding Guidelines: These guidelines are to be used in budget development and preparation of the FS-10 for Reading First public school districts and charter schools.
	www.emsc.nysed.gov /readfirst (496 words)

	Early Reading First
		The overall purpose of the Early Reading First Program is to prepare young children to enter kindergarten with the necessary language, cognitive, and early reading skills to prevent reading difficulties and ensure school success.
		The mission of Early Reading First is to ensure that all children enter kindergarten with the necessary language, cognitive, and early reading skills for continued success in school.
		Early Reading First is a bold initiative to create early childhood centers of excellence that prepare young children to enter kindergarten with the necessary language, cognitive, and early reading skills for learning success.
	www.ed.gov /programs/earlyreading (564 words)

	A201- The First Reading Assignment
		Augusta Ada Byron (Countess of Lovelace) wrote the first computer program for the engine to calculate Bernoulli numbers (the programming language ADA is named for her).
		ENIAC's first application was to solve an important problem for the Manhatten Project, and during the period 1948-1955 ENIAC was operated successfully for a total of 80,223 hours of operation.
		The first operating system was a program that was able to read many programs from magnetic tape and run them sequentially (without waiting for the operator to deal with cards and the output).
	www.cs.indiana.edu /classes/a304-kien/first-reading.html (2069 words)

	First Reading
		In the first place, Plato was critical of citizens who continued to work and be unduly concerned with "necessities" after they had gotten enough to meet their basic needs or had done their share of public service.
		The teacher’s first and constant obligation was to turn the "eye of the soul" to the Good and the True and keep it there.
		Lessons to correct frivolity, false-play, and false-seriousness were among the first assignments for the would-be philosopher.
	www.uiowa.edu /~lsa/bkh/lla/reading.htm (6917 words)

	Put Reading First -- K-3
		The National Reading Panel (NRP) issued a report in 2000 that responded to a Congressional mandate to help parents, teachers, and policymakers identify key skills and methods central to reading achievement.
		The Panel was charged with reviewing research in reading instruction (focusing on the critical years of kindergarten through third grade) and identifying methods that consistently relate to reading success.
		Rapid and accurate word reading frees children to focus their attention on the meaning of what they read.
	www.nifl.gov /partnershipforreading/publications/reading_first1.html (3231 words)

	Reading
		Reading First is a federal initiative authorized by the amendments to Title I, Part B, Subpart 1 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act through the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
		The ultimate purpose of the Act is to ensure that all children read at grade level in English by the end of third grade.
		In support of this goal, funds are provided to states to support comprehensive, scientific reading research-based programs to improve reading instruction at selected Reading First schools, as well as more broadly in the state.
	www.k12.wa.us /curriculuminstruct/reading/readingfirst/default.aspx (149 words)

	How Scientific is Reading First?
		There is a middle ground, which would be to tell it as it is: Reading First would identify the programs that have significant data and acknowledge that the other programs on the list have some of the features of the programs with significant data.
		The tragic part is that Reading First uses teachers and kids as experimental subjects, although programs and training that would turn around the most seriously devastated schools are available now.
		I would not have written the present article if Lyon had acknowledged that Reading First was a political compromise that had some potential because it required states and schools to accept responsibility for failure and to respond constructively to data.
	www.zigsite.com /Reading_First.htm (1703 words)

	Reading First Support
		Reading First is the largest and most focused early reading initiative ever undertaken in this country.
		Reading First offers more funding than ever before for this critical educational priority and holds states and schools accountable for the progress of their students.
		This is an official Website of Reading First designed for the U.S. Department of Education.
	www.readingfirstsupport.us (208 words)

	An Overview of Reading First \| Scholastic.com
		First, each state applies for Reading First money by submitting a detailed proposal of the way it intends to spend the funding.
		Up to 3.5% of local Reading First funding can be reserved for planning and administration; the rest can be used for assessments, reading materials, or other forms of ongoing support to improve reading instruction.
		The heart of the Reading First initiative is the conviction that scientific research should inform reading instruction.
	content.scholastic.com /browse/article.jsp?id=4562 (924 words)

	California Reading First Technical Assistance Center
		Reading First is a national initiative, established under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
		Specifically, Reading First was authorized by Title I, Part B, Subpart I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
		The California Reading First Plan calls for the use of one of two current State adopted, scientific research and standards-based English reading/language arts instructional programs, including an option to use the Spanish alternative version of the English program.
	www.calread.net (420 words)

	Reading First Support
		As part of this legislation, Reading First has been authorized at more than $6 billion to apply scientifically based reading research to strengthen children´s reading skills from kindergarten through third grade.
		RMC Research Corporation, the national coordinator for the Reading First technical assistance center, oversees the activities of three regional centers that deliver technical assistance directly to their assigned states.
		They are the Florida Center for Reading Research (Florida State University, Tallahassee), the Texas Center for Reading and Language Arts (University of Texas at Austin), and the Center on Teaching and Learning (University of Oregon, Eugene).
	www.readingfirstsupport.us /default.asp?article_id=10 (412 words)

	Welcome to The Reading Recovery Council of North America
		Every Child a Reader: the results of the first year reports that children who received Reading Recovery lessons made on average a gain of 21 months in reading age in just 4 to 5 months while lowest achieving children in schools with other early interventions fell further behind their peers.
		Reading Recovery was featured in the Committee for Education Funding (CEF) Hot Sheet in July 2006 as an example of "Real Programs, Real People" supported with federal education funds.
		The Reading Recovery Council of North America has submitted a report to the U.S.D.E. Inspector General and Government Accountability Office documenting intimidation, conflict of interest, and bias in the U.S.D.E. implementation of Reading First.
	www.readingrecovery.org (1004 words)

	Reading First Grant
		Reading First, part of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, is a focused nationwide effort to provide States and school districts with support to establish research-based reading programs for students in kindergarten through third grade.
		Texas was awarded funded for Reading First grant during the spring of 2003.
		Focused on scientifically research-base approaches to teach students to read, campus staff participate in book studies and have frequent opportunities to observe demonstration lessons that are provided by state and national reading experts.
	www.texasliteracy.com /reading_first.htm (688 words)

	Reading First
		Through Reading First, States and districts will receive support to apply scientifically based reading research – and the proven instructional and assessment tools consistent with this research – to ensure that all children learn to read well by the end of third grade.
		The Department will award funds for Reading First under the authority of Title I, Part B, Subpart 1 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
		In addition, the percentage of Reading First funds awarded to an LEA may not be less than the percentage that LEA received of the State’s Title I Part A funds during the previous fiscal year.
	www.opi.mt.gov /ReadingFirst/index.html (828 words)

	Early Reading First
		The Early Reading First program is designed to introduce a high-quality scientifically based literacy program which prepares young children to enter kindergarten with the necessary language, cognitive, and early reading skills to prevent reading difficulties and ensure school success.
		The overall purpose of the Early Reading First Program - part of the President's "Good Start, Grow Smart" initiative - is to prepare young children to enter kindergarten with the necessary language, cognitive, and early reading skills to prevent reading difficulties and ensure school success.
		Early Reading First is a nationwide effort providing funds to local education organizations that serve children from low-income families.
	www.littlesprouts.com /early_reading_first.asp (604 words)

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