Read First Impact
http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2008/11/11192008.html In this article U.S. Secretary of Education discuss the success of the “Read First” program which was implemented to help 1st- 3rd graders to read better. In this article the success have been that the students of this program has progress in three of the five components in reading. The three area that made progress are de-coding, fluency and phonics which is great. But this program did not make any progress in comprehension another component in reading. So my question is do we label this Read First program as successful? My concerns are that its great that the students are able to recognize words and are able to read them but what good is that if they can not comprehend what they have read. I think that the Read First program is a great stepping stone but I think that it needs to be revised. I read in another article that this program cost $6 million to have in just 13 states. $6 million in 13 states what about the other 37 states how much will that cost. But my bigger question why after 6 million dollars why can’t they comprehend? The only other good thing out of this program is that teachers have found good practices that teaches student how to recognize words but that is not enough.
