A 2008 Interim Report by the Institute of Educational Sciences

A 2008 interim report by the Institute of Educational Sciences on the impacts of Reading First on classroom reading instruction and student reading comprehension during 2004-2006 indicated that

A) following every reading passage with comprehension questions significantly improves students' reading comprehension.
B) a phonics-based approach to reading instruction produces better readers than a literature-based approach to reading instruction.
C) emphasis on vocabulary instruction significantly improved students' reading comprehension.
D) knowledge of phonemic awareness and phonics should be the cornerstones of reading instruction in the elementary grades.
E) a phonics-based approach to reading instruction does not necessarily produce better readers than other approaches.