You will need to use Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print this pdf file. Click here to download a free Adobe Acrobat Reader from Adobe Systems. This is the first of what we hope will be several articles from the WSRA Advocacy Committee for the WSRA Journal and WSRA Website. Working in conjunction with the Executive Committee , Legislative Committee and Research Committee , the Advocacy Committee sees its role as preparing materials which can be used by WSRA members to address critical reading issues which may emerge in their schools, districts, areas or at the state level.
Information is power.
Information about our critics is even more powerful and information to counteract our critics may be the most powerful of all. The Advocacy Committee is committed to the dissemination of that information to all members. The Advocacy Committee intends to use articles like this one as regular feature of the WSRA Journal . The first issue that the Advocacy Committee has decided to address is recent mandates for Direct Instruction in reading programs. This issue recently emerged at the state level when the funding of the innovative, successful class-size reduction program S.A.G.E. was tied to research involving the use of Direct Instruction as a teaching methodology in SAGE classrooms.