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Evidence-Based Reading Programs

Find reading programs that match your state, district, school, or classroom needs while meeting the national ESSA evidence standards.

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Programs Designed For
  • Whole Class
    51
  • Struggling Readers
    50
  • English Learners
    9
ESSA Evidence Rating
  • Strong
    49
  • Moderate
    18
  • Promising
    37
Grade
  • PreK, K
    33
  • 1 - 2
    49
  • 3 - 6
    47
  • Middle School
    21
  • High School
    15
Community
  • Not Specified
    8
  • Rural
    36
  • Suburban
    39
  • Urban
    78
Groups
  • Free and Reduced Price Meals
    90
  • Special Education
    31
  • African American
    69
  • Asian American/Pacific Islander
    10
  • English Learners
    58
  • Hispanic
    75
  • Native American
    1
  • White
    70
Features
  • Cooperative Learning
    14
  • English Learners
    9
  • Family Engagement
    11
  • Metacognitive Strategies
    16
  • Professional Development
    43
  • Response to Intervention/Special Education
    6
  • Technology
    37
  • Textbook/Curriculum
    20
  • Tutoring
    25
  • Whole-School Reform
    6
Reading Go! (Formerly Reading Rescue)

1

One-to-one tutoring

Moderate
Early Steps

1

One-to-one tutoring

Moderate
SIPPS® (Systematic Instruction in Phonological Awareness, Phonics, and Sight Words)

1-2

A foundational skills program providing a structured-literacy approach to new and struggling readers.

Moderate
i-Ready Personalized Instruction Reading

5

An adaptive assessment and personalized learning tool students and teachers use to support growth in reading and math.

Moderate
Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS) — Reading — Elementary, Struggling Readers

1

Students take turns as peer teacher and learner

Moderate
Scholastic RISE and RISE Up

1-5

A Tier 2 literacy intervention that provides targeted small-group instruction for reading comprehension, word study, phonics, and guided writing

Promising
Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing (LiPS)

K – 2

Small group and one-to-one tutoring with a multi-sensory approach

Promising
Lectura Proactiva/ Intervenciones tempranas de la lectura

1

An explicit, systematic reading intervention program delivered in Spanish for EL learners at-risk for reading difficulties

Promising
Lexia PowerUp Literacy

6-8

Blended learning program that promotes literacy among struggling and non-proficient adolescent readers through online student-driven instruction and offline teacher-delivered lessons and activities

Promising
Ignite Reading

1

One-to-one foundational reading skills tutoring

Promising
Lexia® Core5® Reading Program – Struggling Readers

K-5

Blended learning program that promotes literacy for students in grades preK-5 via online student-driven instruction and offline teacher-delivered lessons and activities

Promising
Reading Horizons Discovery

K-3

Reading Horizons Discovery is a foundational reading program that uses the instructional principles of Orton-Gillingham and Structured Literacy.

Promising
Readable English

6-8

A reading fluency and comprehension intervention for striving adolescent readers

Promising
Amira

1 – 4

1-to-1 intelligent reading tutor

Promising
Wilson Reading System®

3, 5

Complete reading approach using multisensory model

Promising