PHILADELPHIA, March 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- In a country that has offered and supported free education to its entire population it seems criminal that such a huge number of citizens are functionally illiterate, with reports stating as many as 50 million adult Americans fit that category, costing businesses and taxpayers over two hundred billion dollars annually in both remedial education and losses due to crime. The National Reading Panel (NRP), following over two years of exhaustive research, concluded, in The Report of the National Reading Panel (2001), that there are five key factors in effective reading instruction.

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NEW YORK, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- A U.S. Department of Education funded study found that WordWorld, an Emmy(R) winning PBS KIDS series, significantly strengthens early literacy skills in preschoolers, providing the building blocks essential for learning how to read.

By Vadasy, Patricia F Sanders, Elizabeth A Many students have difficulty achieving reading fluency, and nearly half of fourth graders are not fluent readers in grade-level texts.