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Introduction: Fluent Reading

This program highlights successful strategies for helping children become fluent readers and shows how early testing and intervention can help struggling readers. 

The Alphabetic Principle

In Houston, the teacher of an advanced kindergarten class connects letters and sounds in a systematic and explicit way.

Norman Bridwell: A Writer's Secret

Norman Bridwell talks about Clifford the Big Red Dog and the one consistent message that shows up in his books: When things go wrong, don’t give up…try again!

Helping Struggling Readers

The Lab School in Washington, D.C. shows how one-on-one tutoring helps struggling readers achieve phonemic awareness.

Letters & sounds

A Hmong-American kindergarten teacher in Sacramento mixes serious instruction with lively play for his second-language learners.

Fun with Phonemes

One family in Raleigh, North Carolina, shows how playing word and rhyming games puts their child on the road to reading success.

Introduction: Sounds & Symbols

Sounds and Symbols focuses on how children learn the relationship between sounds, letters, and words as an initial step before being able to decode the printed word.

Reading Together

Georgetown Even Start is helping at-risk families break the cycle of low literacy and educational failure.

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