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Audience Approved by JDRP and PEP for students in grades K-8. Implemented successfully in all school settings and can be effectively used with bilingual students, non-English speaking students, Chapter I and learning disabled as well as mainstream and gifted students. Materials translated in Spanish.

Description Books And Beyond is designed to help students develop the habit of recreational reading, to involve parents in their children's reading activities, and to decrease indiscriminate TV viewing. Success-oriented strategies produce positive, long-lasting behavioral changes in regard to recreational reading. Success for each child is assured through self-paced procedures that allow for individual differences. Basic components include:

• A six to eight month read-a-thon based on at-home and in-school recreational reading with progress recorded on a colorful school bulletin board;
  
• Role-modeling by parents, teachers, and staff;
  
• Promotion of family literacy activities; and
  
• A unique TV component which promotes critical thinking and decision making regarding TV viewing and use of recreational free time.

This program addresses National Goals for Education 3 and 6 by encouraging students to develop the habit of reading and in doing so, improve reading and comprehension skills. This, in turn, broadens opportunities for students to use their minds well and be prepared for further learning. The program works to ensure that every child will become a literate adult American, able to develop skills necessary to compete in a future world economy and to exercise the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.

Evidence of Effectiveness Participants demonstrated significant gains in reading achievement when compared with a control group study as measured by the CTBS Reading Test. They also displayed increases in recreational reading, scope of reading, increased family literacy activities, and a decrease in time spent watching television.

Requirements A one-day training session and a Books And Beyond theme manual are necessary for successful adoption. The manual includes instruction for implementation, ideas for adaptations, graphic designs for bulletin boards, forms for student/teacher materials, and parent newsletters. Training topics include exploration school needs, reading strategies, record keeping, cost, evaluation, and activities for parent participation, developing discriminate TV viewing habits, and stimulating recreational reading.

Costs Typical training costs consist of travel expenses plus $300 per day honorarium for program staff. A network of more than 125 certified trainers exists nationwide. Training costs are negotiable with individual certified trainers. Costs for school implementation, including duplication expenses and incentives, are approximately $2.50 per student.

Services Program staff are available for awareness meetings (cost to be negotiated). Awareness materials are available at no cost. There are 25 National Demonstration Sites throughout the country available for visitation upon request. An awareness/training video is available for $20. Visitors are welcome at the program site by appointment.

Contact

Ellie Topolovac, Director or Ann Collins, Coordinator, Solana Beach School District, 309 North Rios Avenue, Solana Beach, CA 92075. (619) 755-3823 or (619) 755-6319 (for orders), FAX (619) 755-0449.

Developmental Funding: ESEA Title IV-C.
JDRP No. 84-8 (3/20/84)
Recertified (8/11/94)

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