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The Open Court Reading Program is a core Language arts/English series used in a large number of elementary schools classrooms. It was one of two reading programs adopted for use in California schools when textbooks were last chosen in 2002. The other was Houghton-Mifflin Reading. For the 2008 Edition, Open Court Reading's name was changed to ...
Open Court Reading; name changed to "Imagine It!" in 2008; Orton-Gillingham; Phono-graphix (1993) – developed by Carmen and Geoffrey McGuinness; Preventing Academic Failure (PAF) program (1978) Reading Mastery by SRA/McGraw-Hill, previously known as DISTAR; Smart Way Reading and Spelling (2001) Spalding Method
In Reading Without Dick and Jane, Trace investigated in further detail the methods of teaching reading in public schools at the time, making the case, as did Flesch, for the superiority of the phonics method—based on knowing how letters and letter combinations typically sound—over the then widely adopted "look-say" method (or, as Trace ...
Since the 1960s, SRA has published Direct Instruction programs, also known as DISTAR (Direct Instruction System for Teaching Arithmetic and Reading). These include Language for Learning, Reading Mastery, Reasoning and Writing, Connecting Math Concepts, and Corrective Reading. SRA acquired Everyday Mathematics and purchased Open Court Reading in ...
Independent review of the teaching of early reading (Rose Report 2006) J. Janet and John; K. ... Open Court Reading; Reading readiness; Science Research Associates;
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In 2002, author Samuel L. Blumenfeld, a supporter of teaching reading skills with phonics reading, argued that the Dick and Jane series and others that used the whole-word, look-say, or sight-reading method caused poor reading skills among the millions of American students who learned to read using this method. [20]