Meris Stansbury reports that Florida education officials adopted FreeReading.net on its short list of K-3 supplemental reading programs that schools may use state instructional money to purchase for the 2008-09 school year.

Educators are invited to participate in discussion boards; take part in the full, 40-week scope and sequence of lessons; or tailor materials to their students’ individual learning needs.

FreeReading.net offers a free, sequential, research-based reading intervention program designed for students in kindergarten through first grade. This is the first open instructional program to be approved through an official state adoption.

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Larry Berger serves as co-founder and chief executive officer of the program’s creator, Wireless Generation.

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