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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
    17
  • Promising
    38
Grade
  • PreK, K
    32
  • 1 - 2
    49
  • 3 - 6
    47
  • Middle School
    21
  • High School
    15
Community
  • Not Specified
    8
  • Rural
    36
  • Suburban
    39
  • Urban
    77
Groups
  • Free and Reduced Price Meals
    89
  • Special Education
    32
  • African American
    69
  • Asian American/Pacific Islander
    10
  • English Learners
    58
  • Hispanic
    74
  • Native American
    1
  • White
    70
Features
  • Cooperative Learning
    14
  • English Learners
    9
  • Family Engagement
    10
  • Metacognitive Strategies
    16
  • Professional Development
    42
  • Response to Intervention/Special Education
    6
  • Technology
    37
  • Textbook/Curriculum
    19
  • Tutoring
    25
  • Whole-School Reform
    6
Talent Development High School (TDHS) — Strategic Reading and Student Team Literature

9

A whole-school reform emphasizing cooperative learning in reading

Promising
REDI (Research Based, Developmentally Informed)

PK-K

Focus on self-regulation, social problem solving, story telling

Promising
The Project Approach

PK

Play instruction and extended projects give children experience with real-world topics.

Promising
Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR)

6 – 8

A cooperative learning model for reading comprehension strategies

Promising
Fast ForWord — Elementary, Whole Class

5 – 6

Supplemental software

Promising
PAX Good Behavior Game — Reading

1 – 3

Behavior management using group contingencies

Promising
Reach

3

A comprehensive, content-based, core ESL program.

Promising
Spell Read

3, 5

Remedial approach emphasizing phonics and fluency

Promising
Every Classroom, Every Day (ECED) — Reading

9 – 10

A high school approach emphasizing authentic expository text

Promising
Word Generation

6 – 8

An approach to help struggling readers learn comprehension strategies by learning vocabulary

Promising
Elements of Reading: Comprehension

3 – 4

Supplemental approach to enhance comprehension

Promising
Corrective Reading — Elementary

3, 5

Scripted and structured remedial lessons

Promising
Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction (ECRI)

1 – 6

Teacher training program with scripted direct instruction to use for struggling readers

Promising
Responsive Classroom – Reading

1 – 5

Professional development in social-emotional learning strategies

Promising