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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
    52
  • Struggling Readers
    55
  • English Learners
    9
ESSA Evidence Rating
  • Strong
    68
  • Moderate
    17
  • Promising
    26
Grade
  • PreK, K
    32
  • 1 - 2
    53
  • 3 - 6
    50
  • Middle School
    22
  • High School
    14
Community
  • Not Specified
    9
  • Rural
    41
  • Suburban
    40
  • Urban
    83
Groups
  • Free and Reduced Price Meals
    93
  • Special Education
    32
  • African American
    73
  • Asian American/Pacific Islander
    11
  • English Learners
    58
  • Hispanic
    77
  • Native American
    1
  • White
    76
Features
  • Cooperative Learning
    18
  • English Learners
    8
  • Family Engagement
    12
  • Metacognitive Strategies
    22
  • Professional Development
    49
  • Response to Intervention/Special Education
    6
  • Technology
    37
  • Textbook/Curriculum
    17
  • Tutoring
    27
  • Whole-School Reform
    7
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
Istation Reading – Upper Elementary, Middle School

5-7

A computer-based adaptive testing system that provides benchmark and continuous progress monitoring

Promising
WordFlight

6, 7

Online assessment and blended intervention for struggling readers

Promising
Renzulli Learning

3-8

An interactive online system providing personalized learning.

Promising
Lexia® Core5® Reading

K-5

Computer-assisted instruction

Promising
Student Success Skills — Reading — Elementary

5 – 6

Counselors work with small groups on success skills

Promising
Burst Reading

K-3

Differentiated reading instruction based on formative assessment data, used in small groups of three to five students.

Promising
Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) — English Learners

2 – 4

Cooperative groups learn comprehension and writing

Promising
Achieve3000 — Elementary (KidBiz3000)

2 – 5

Technology with whole-class and small-group lessons

Promising
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