Proven and Promising Reading Programs

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Success For All is a core reading program that ranges from prekindergarten through eighth grade. Designed for at-risk students in high poverty/title one schools, all schools implementing SFA have reported significant gains in reading.

Website

http://www.successforall.net

Open Court Reading

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Open Court Reading, SRA/McGraw-Hill is a well-designed, systematic reading program, balancing phonics and literature. Open Court Reading is a research-based curriculum grounded in systematic, explicit instruction of phonemic awareness, phonics and word knowledge, comprehension skills and strategies, inquiry skills and strategies, and writing and language arts skills and strategies. Reading fine literature is one of the founding principles of Open Court Reading. At the third grade level, students extend their phonics strategies and spelling knowledge to become automatic, fluent readers. The program has been proven successful in schools nationwide and is one of two core programs used in California.

Audience

Whole class instruction is provided in grades K-3. The Open Court Intervention Program is for students in grades 2-6.

Website

http://www.sra4kids.com

Harcourt Reading/Trophies

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Trophies is a high quality reading program that is based on scientifically based research. It offers explicit instructional strategies in phonemic awareness, phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary and high frequency words, and comprehension skills and strategies.

Audience

Trophies is a core reading program designed for the whole class. It is for students in grades K-5 with an additional intervention resource kit to provide support for struggling learners, as well as instruction for English language learners.

Website

http://www.harcourt.com

Houghton Mifflin Reading

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Houghton Mifflin Reading meets the criteria crucial for effective reading instruction established by the National Reading Panel Report. It provides explicit, systematic instruction in phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. Daily phonemic awareness establishes the foundation for literacy development. Phonics instruction is explicit with scaffolded instruction to guide student independence. Fluency instruction includes decodable text and leveled books with assessment measures for speed, accuracy and the ability to read with expression. Comprehension instruction addresses seven categories of comprehension including monitoring, questioning and summarizing for narrative and expository text with the use of graphic organizers. It is one of two core programs used in California.

Audience

Houghton Mifflin Reading is a core program designed for whole class instruction for students in kindergarten to grade eight. Early Success and Soar to Success are intervention programs designed for struggling readers in Houghton Mifflin Reading.

Website

www.hmco.com

Early Success and Soar to Success (Houghton Mifflin Reading)

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Early Success and Soar to Success are Houghton Mifflin Intervention Reading Programs. Early Success is a research-based reading intervention program for students in grades 1 and 2 who need extra support to become proficient, grade-level readers. Early Success develops reading fluency within a meaning-based context. Soar to Success uses authentic literature, reciprocal teaching, and graphic organizers to help students learn to apply and use comprehension and decoding strategies and skills of an effective reader as they read across the curriculum.

Audience

Early Success students who need extra support are provided 30 minutes of instruction daily in small groups of 5-7. Soar to Success was designed to accelerate learning for students who are experiencing difficulty in reading in grades three, four, five, and six. Small group intervention is provided during a 40-minute block of instruction daily. Both intervention programs are used in conjunction with a regular program of classroom instruction in reading and language arts.

Website

http://www.hmco.com

Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Reading

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Children receive explicit instruction in various levels of phonological awareness in grades K –2. Instruction in phonics is provided in grades K-3. Spelling, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension are also an integral part of the program from grades K-6. Leveled and decodable books are used at all levels. Scientifically based research guides the recommended instructional strategies. Supplementary support and intervention components meet the needs of struggling literacy learners.

Audience

Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Reading is a core program designed for whole class instruction for students in kindergarten to grade six.

Website

http://www.mhschool.com

Scott Foresman Reading

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Scott Foresman Reading provides every grade level with a rich collection of fiction and nonfiction in a core text that is well grounded in scientific research. The program also contains sets of leveled readers that provide high-interest, accessible literature. All students can focus on the same target skill and vocabulary working at their own instructional level. Comprehension strategies help with vocabulary development, story structure, questioning and summarizing information. Assessment for screening helps with placement decisions using the DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills). Intervention strategies and support materials are provided for students who are at risk of reading failure and need additional support.

Audience

Scott Foresman Reading is a core reading program for the whole class with supplementary support for struggling readers in grades K-6.

Website

http://www.scottforesman.com

Rigby Literacy (A Harcourt Education Company)

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Rigby Literacy incorporates the reading and writing approaches of modeled, shared, guided, and independent reading. It utilizes authentic literacy (trade books) to provide comprehension, phonics, and words structure skills instruction that is delivered in an embedded context.

Audience

Rigby components are part of a core reading program. It is designed for regular classroom instruction for students in grades K-5. Supplementary support is provided for struggling and at risk literacy learners.

Website

http://www.rigby.com

Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing Program for Reading, Spelling and Speech (LiPS Program)

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This program is used for students with severe difficulty with sounds and stresses the oral-motor characteristics of speech. The LiPS program addresses the development of phonemic awareness as a base for accurate reading and spelling. The program progresses from sounds in isolation, to sequences of sounds in nonwords and real words.

Audience

Whole class instruction in kindergarten as a part of a phonological awareness program or with individual students developing articulation and phoneme-grapheme relationships PreK-12

Website

http://proedinc.com

Project Read

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Project Read, The Language Circle, is a language arts program for students who need systematic, direct teaching of phonology, linguistics, reading comprehension Story Form (narrative text), and reading comprehension Report Form (expository text), and written expression using multi-sensory techniques.

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Whole class instruction, small group and individual student instruction for students in grades 1 through high school with mild-moderate and severe needs.

Website

http://www.projectread.com

Wilson Reading System

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The Wilson Reading System is a multi-sensory, synthetic approach to teaching reading and writing based on an Orton Gillingham approach. Decoding and spelling are taught in a step-by-step sequential fashion. The program teaches sounds to automaticity and the structure of words with concepts presented within controlled text. Fluency is a part of daily instruction. Students have the opportunity to practice skills within context and to establish the connection of reading for meaning.

Audience

The program was originally designed for grades 4-12 but has been adapted for younger students. Wilson Reading is taught in early elementary grades through adult.

Website

http://www.wilsonlanguage.com

Fundations Wilson Language Basics for K-3

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Fundations is an adaptation of the Wilson Reading System. It links literature-based and basal instruction with effective components of effective reading (print knowledge, alphabetic awareness and letter formation, phonological and phonemic awareness, decoding/word recognition, writing/spelling, comprehension).

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The program was designed for students in grades K-3. It is designed for whole class general education instruction with targeted instruction for children with disabilities. In schools where it is not used in the general classroom it has been adapted for younger students in the lowest 30th percentile as an intervention program. It is also combined with a literature-based program to provide students with a language learning disability who struggle with an alternative language arts program.

Website

http://www.wilsonlanguage.com

S.P.I.R.E. (Specialized Program Individualized Reading Excellence), Educators Publishing Service

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S.P.I.R.E is a multisensory intervention reading program for at-risk, struggling readers in grades K-8. Its scope and sequence, informed by most frequently used elements of children’s language and coupled with its Orton-Gilllingham philosophy make it an effective intervention, remedial or inclusion reading program. Audience S.P.I.R.E.’s spiral, sequential curriculum provides support instruction for at-risk beginning readers in grades K-1 and struggling readers in grades 2-8. Research-based components in S.P.I.R.E. account for children’s success in learning to read, spell and write.

Website

http://www.epsbooks.com/SPIRE

Language!, Sopris West

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Language! is a literacy curriculum for delayed readers, writers and spellers. Literacy skills are taught sequentially and cumulatively in the areas of reading, composition, vocabulary, spelling, morphology, and grammar.

Audience

Language! is for students who are performing two or more years behind grade level, are English Language Learners, and have difficulty learning due to learning disabilities. It is for students ranging from grades 2 through high school.

Website

http://www.sopriswest.com

Spelling, Writing, Reading (SWR)

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Explicit, multisensory, systematic instruction in decoding and encoding for grades 1-4 that incorporates a combination of (synthetic and analytic) word family approaches as well as study in grammar and usage.

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SWR is designed for regular classroom instruction and can be modified for small group instruction for at risk readers.

Great Leaps Reading

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Great Leaps Reading emphasis is on fluency training. It requires 5-10 minutes of intervention per day per student. The goal is to develop comprehension through fluency.

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This is a supplementary program to be used in conjunction with the curriculum being implemented in the classroom. Instruction provided in a one-to-one fashion can be used in grades K-12.

Speed Drills for Decoding Automaticity, Oxton House

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Speed Drills is a reading fluency program, on the word level, that is designed to help students respond automatically when reading whole words in order to develop sight word recognition. It is designed for students to respond automatically to the orthographic units (phonic elements) that make up words.

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Speed Drills for Automaticity is a supplemental fluency training program, designed for students who need to develop sight word recognition as well as words containing phonetically regular word patterns. Instruction is provided in a one-to-one or small group setting.