"In 1997, Congress asked the Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), in consultation with the Secretary of Education, to convene a national panel to assess the status of research-based knowledge, ...

Summarizes recent research in reading and helps teachers understand how to successfully teach children in grades Kindergarten through grade three how to read covering five areas of reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, ...

Summarizes research findings on the best ways to teach children to read, explaining successful strategies and activities that can improve reading skills in kindergarten through third grade students.

... read , the Panel reviewed studies of three areas regarded as essential to developing reading com- prehension : vocabulary development , text comprehension instruction , and teacher preparation and comprehension strategies instruction ...