All children don't fit the same mold. We must work to insure that these rights become part of educational policy, school curriculum, and accountability. Honoring Children's Rights to Excellent Reading Instruction. The statement outlines a fundamental change in how policy makers, parents, and school professionals must look at improving schools. The new International Reading Association position statement says that it is time to build reading programs on a set of rights that all children should have for an effective program.
Children have a right to appropriate early reading instruction based on their individual needs.
No single method or single combination of methods can successfully teach all children to read. Children have a right to reading instruction that builds both the skill and the desire to read increasingly complex materials. Children need well-developed repertoires of reading comprehension and study strategies. Children have a right to well-prepared teachers who keep their skills up to date through effective professional development. Teachers skilled in the wide range of methods for teaching reading must be at the core of all reform efforts.