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into four sections: pre-reading activities, the story, post-reading activities, and supplemental activities. Specific
recommendations on how to use the workbooks and the spelling books are included, with suggestions for related
books and creative ideas for class activities, such as art projects, role-playing dramas, and special events.
Related children's poetry is also included in several of the Teacher's Guides, and each guide provides an
introduction summarizing recent reading research and practice.
Research Foundations and Program Rationale:
For students who constitute special populations, the basal-reader approach appears to be more effective than
whole language approaches*. These findings are not surprising. Most students with hearing impairments or other
special language needs lack the basic oral/aural knowledge of the language they are learning to read; thus, the
task of learning to read becomes a language-learning process at the same time. The result can be an enormous
gap between the language base of many of these children and the language materials they are given to read.
Reading Milestones minimizes this gap by beginning with the simplest language possible to ensure initial success
in reading and then by increasing language acquisition (vocabulary, syntax, figurative language). Students work in
very small steps, accompanied by constant reinforcement, to ensure continuing success.
*&Stahl, S. A., & Miller, P. D. (1989). Whole language and language experience approaches for beginning
reading: A quantitative research synthesis. Review of Educational Research,
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