Selecting a Basal Reading Program: Making the Right Choice

Douglas P. Barnard; Robert W. Hetzel

doi:10.5771/9781461732433

Summary

This book capitalizes on the authors' longitudinal perspective in program development in approaching a K-12 reading strategy, The school administrator and classroom teacher will find the book's guidelines right to the point. They hit the key issues involved in selecting a reading program: from forming workable and effective professional committees, to conducting the essential evaluations. Anyone who has been through this process will recognize the wealth of expertise required to condense what could be a ponderous and arcane task, into the coherent set of steps and procedures presented in this book. The graphs and tables are invaluable. They will prove enormously helpful in performing each of the tasks in program selections. The authors have set form a process that should enable a school district to optimize the selection and applications of resources in order to maximize pupil learning opportunity. Practitioners will not be disappointed.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/1989
Copyright Year: 1989
ISBN-Print: 978-0-87762-633-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4617-3243-3
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 171
Product Type: Monograph

1. Table of Contents No access
2. List of Charts No access
3. Foreword No access
4. Acknowledgement No access
1. Reliance on Commercial Textbooks No access
2. A Logical Framework isn't the Problem No access
3. The Flip Test: A Flawed Decision-Making Process No access
4. The Wine and Cheese Phenomenon No access
5. The California and Texas Effect No access
6. References No access
1. To Committee or not to Committee No access
2. Who and how Many No access
3. Determining Outcomes No access
4. Setting Expectations for the Chairperson No access
5. Process Closure No access
6. Committeeship Checklist No access
7. References No access
1. Deciding on Decision Making No access
2. Ensuring Participation No access
3. Public Recording No access
4. Agenda Planning No access
5. Leader as a Committee Member No access
6. Reference and Note No access
1. Readability No access
2. Vocabulary No access
3. Single or Multi-Adoption No access
4. Other Criteria Issues No access
5. References No access
1. Organizing the Adoption No access
2. Communicating with Publishers No access
3. Deciding Evaluation Strands No access
4. Selecting the Committee No access
5. Meeting the Committee No access
6. Establishing Weights No access
7. Screening to Five Basal Systems No access
8. Evaluating Programs In-Depth No access
9. User Verification No access
10. Screening Down to Two Programs No access
11. Involving Parents No access
12. Publisher Presentations No access
13. Teacher Vote No access
14. Student Preference No access
15. Parent Vote No access
16. Final Tabulation and Recommendation No access
17. Next Step No access
1. Using Limited Resources No access
2. Good Neighbor Policy No access
1. Spring Planning No access
2. Fall Start-Up No access
3. Student Placement No access
4. Record Keeping No access
5. Grouping No access
6. Lesson Plans No access
7. Monitoring No access
8. Improvement Ethic No access
9. References No access
Charts No access Pages 35 - 171