They also credited intensive reading programs like Success for All, and defended the emphasis on testing.
Any student reading below a sixth-grade level would be placed in an intensive reading program.
The heart of the elementary school instructional system was an intensive reading program that lasted three hours a day -- nearly twice the time available in other city schools.
First, intensive reading catch-up in primary schools can tackle poor literacy, something that is strongly related to later low achievement.
If by year's end it had raised test scores, students in later grades would also be homogeneously grouped for intensive reading.
The Chicago board voted yesterday to create an intensive reading program for schools with large numbers of failing students that would include full-day kindergarten, smaller classes in lower grades and mandatory summer school.
He also worried about whether his quest to understand his gift was hampered because he wasn't able to compare notes with criminal pickpockets, and began his intensive reading in the literature of pickpocketry.
Last week, the Chicago Board of Education made some changes to its promotion policy, including the creation of an intensive reading program as well as a ban on holding back a student more than twice between kindergarten and the eighth grade.
This approach known as the Lindamood programme after its developers, Patricia and Charles Lindamood is an intensive reading course that tries to improve phoneme identification by focusing on how children articulate the sounds.
It starts with making sure every child learns to read, K-through-2 diagnostic testing so we know whether or not there's a deficiency, curriculum that works and phonics needs to be an integral part of our reading curriculum, intensive reading laboratories, teacher retraining.
The average dyslexic child isn't diagnosed -- and so doesn't begin to receive intensive reading help -- until she is in the second or third grade.
