The panel found that specific instruction in the major parts of reading (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension) is the best approach to teaching most children to read. …

Teaching with letters is important because this helps children apply their PA skills to reading and writing. Teaching children to blend phonemes with letters helps them decode.

Teaching Children to Read Findings and Determinations of the National Reading Panel by Topic Areas Alphabetics Phonemic Awareness Instruction Phonemes are the smallest units composing spoken …

Sight-word programs that begin by teaching children a sight-word reading vocabulary of from 50 to 100 words. Only after they learn to read these words do children receive instruction in the alphabetic …

As the National Reading Panel (NRP) began its analysis of the extant research data on reading comprehension, three predominant themes emerged: (1) reading comprehension is a cognitive …

The combination of practice and feedback promotes reading fluency. Teaching vocabulary words —teaching new words, either as they appear in text or by introducing new words separately. This …

In 1997, Congress convened the National Reading Panel to assess the effectiveness of different approaches used to teach children to read. The panel was made up of 14 people, including leading …

Background Reading comprehension strategy instruction has been a major research topic for more than 20 years. The idea behind this approach to instruction is that reading comprehension can be …

Across the various conditions of teaching, testing, and participant characteristics, the effect sizes were all significantly greater than chance and ranged from large to small, with the majority in the moderate …

Introduction Although reading is based on the technology of writing and printing, the history of reading instruction reflects a recurrent interest in the application of other technologies, for example, reading …