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Walpole, SharonBalanced Literacy: Making It Work in a Real School.Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement, AnnArbor, MI.Department of Education, Washington, DC.1999-11-1073p.; Outline of a presentation presented at the U.S.Department of Education's 1999 Regional Conferences onImproving America's Schools Act (Salt Lake City, UT November8-10, 1999).http://www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/REA/research.html.Speeches/Meeting Papers (150)MF01/PC03 Plus Postage.Classroom Techniques; Elementary Education; Intervention;*Reading Instruction; *Reading Programs; Reading Tests*Balanced Literacy; *Reading Excellence Act

This slide presentation takes the educator through thestep-by-step implementation of a reading program, RISE (Reading Initiativefor Student Excellence), in a real school. The RISE program aims for balancedliteracy for students, in response to the Reading Excellence Act (REA) of1998. The presentation outlines the steps to balanced literacy, taking intoaccount: (1) Reading Excellence Act; (2) Background of My School; (2) Role of

Assessment; (3) Reading Program--Time, Team, Text, Tasks, Talk; (4) Role of

Interventions; and (5) Readings to Start. (NKA)

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