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mark. (Bloomer has reported to the School Board that regional Title 1 director Alpha Smith has informed him that Open Court should be instituted in the third grade Title classes. However, this change would only delay the transition back to Bookmark for a year until the students enter fourth grade.)
Bookmark To Replace
Open Court
If Bloomer’s proposal for a primary reading lab is approved by regional director Smith, he hopes to start Title I students in the Bookmark series right off the bat in first grade. He explained that other materials which reinforce skills learned in the Bookmark series will be used in the lab to satisfy the federal requirement that the Title programs be supplemental. In that way, it will be possible to use Bookmark even though it is the standard text in regular instruction. “We can reinforce the same skills as long as we use different materials,’’ Bloomer said.
Approval of the primary reading lab will mean more than the elimination within a year of Open Court—and transition difficulties—in grades one through three. It
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