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 Basal programs respond to education trends and are market driven but rarely initiate new ideas and rarely reflect reading research.

 Programs are developed by editors, graphic designers, and marketing experts who give prototypical lesson plans to companies that specialize in writing the materials.

 Despite publisher claims, basal programs are more alike than they are different.

 Materials in the programs include repetitive questions and activities that bore students.

 Basal programs are developed for groups of students, not individual students who have distinct needs.

 Basal programs do not reflect a variety of teaching methods for different types of students.

 Basal programs fail to draw on background knowledge of diverse students.

 Basal materials do not take into account students’ varied academic strengths and abilities or English proficiency.

Take a few minutes to review and reflect on the following summary chart of the pros and cons of basal programs.

Figure 1.1 What Research Says About Basal Reading Programs