Beginning reading
Educator's summary
As a PDF document
As web pages:
- Key findings
- Top-rated programmes
- Programmes with limited evidence
- Other programmes
- Review methods
Full report
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Insufficient Evidence of Effectiveness
One or more qualifying studies did not meet the criteria for “Limited Evidence of Effectiveness”.
- Destination Reading
- Headsprout
- Plato Focus
- Reading Machine
- Reading Street
- The Literacy Center
- Waterford
- Writing to Read
N No Qualifying Studies
No studies met inclusion standards
UK programmes lacking qualifying studies:
- Can do Cubes www.candocubes.com
- Code Breakers, Hamilton Trust www.hamiltoneducation.org.uk
- Collins Big Cat www.collinseducation.com/
- Collins Big Cat Phonics www.collinseducation.com/
- Collins Primary Literacy, Collins www.collinseducation.com/Primary
- Dandelion Readers, Phonic Books www.phonicbooks.co.uk
- Debbie Hepplewhite’s Online Synthetic Phonics Programme , Phonics International www.phonicsinternational.com
- Destination Literacy www.riverdeep-learning.co.uk
- Discovery World (Heinemann/Pearson) /www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk/
- EasyTech www.learnpath.com
- Easyread, Oxford Learning www.easyreadsystem.com
- Fast Phonics First/ Rigby Star Phonics (Heinemann) www.rigbystar.co.uk/fpf/
- Fast Track Phonics, Success for All www.successforall.org.uk
- Fireflies (Oxford Reading Tree) http://fds.oup.com/www0.oup.com/ort/3/fireflies.html
- Floppy’s Phonics (ORT) http://fds.oup.com/www0.oup.com/ort/3/floppysphonics.html
- Fun with Phonics, BBC Active www.bbcactivefunwithphonics.com
- Jolly Phonics www.jollylearning.co.uk
- Kids & Co (Rising Stars) www.risingstars-uk.com
- Kar2ouche www.kar2ouche.com
- KnowledgeBox http://uk.knowledgebox.com/standard.html
- Letterland, Letterland International www.letterland.com
- Letters and Sounds: Principles and practice of high quality phonics, National Literacy Strategywww.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/clld
- Lexia Early, Foundation and Quick Reading Test, Lexiawww.lexiauk.co.uk
- Lighthouse (Heinemann/Pearson) www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk
- Literacy Evolve (Pearson Education) www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk
- Literacy World , Heinemann www.heinemann.co.uk/Primary/Primary.aspx
- Longman, various titles www.longman.co.uk/
- Nessy Learning Programme, Net Educational Systems www.nessy.com/nessylearningprogramme
- Oxford Reading Tree, OUP www.oxfordprimary.co.uk
- Phonics: A Complete Synthetic System , Scholastic www.teachershop.scholastic.co.uk
- PM (Nelson Thornes) www.nelsonthornes.com/pm/
- POPAT: Programme of Phoneme Awareness Trainingwww.popat.co.uk
- Read Write Inc, OUP www.oxfordprimary.co.uk
- Rigby Star, Heinemann www.rigbystar.co.uk
- Snapdragons (Oxford Reading Tree) http://fds.oup.com/www0.oup.com/ort/3/snapdragons.html
- Songbirds (Oxford Reading Tree) http://fds.oup.com/www0.oup.com/ort/3/songbirds.html
- Sound Discovery, Ridgehill www.syntheticphonics.net
- Sounds Write www.sounds-write.co.uk
- Splash Phonics (Rising Stars) www.risingstars-uk.com
- Storyworlds (Heinemann/Pearson) www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk
- Tell a Tale 2 www.4mation.co.uk
- THRASS: Teaching Handwriting, Reading and Spelling Skillswww.thrass.co.uk
- Wordshark
Wordshark Letters and Sounds, White Space - Work With Words www.workwithwords.org.uk
If you use programmes which are not listed here, please let us know
Non-UK:
- 100 Book Challenge
- ABD's of Reading
- Academy of Reading
- Accelerated Literacy Learning
- Accelerated Reader
- AfterSchool KidzLit
- Alphabetic Phonics
- Barton Reading & Spelling
- System
- Be a Better Reader
- Breakthrough to Literacy
- Carbo Reading Styles
- Caught Reading
- CCC
- Charlesbridge Reading Fluency
- Classworks
- Compass Reading
- Comprehension Plus
- Comprehension Upgrade
- Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI)
- Conceptually-Based Strategy Instruction
- Consistency Management
- Cooperative Discipline (CMCD)
- Cross-Aged Literacy Program
- Disciplinary Literacy
- Discover Intensive Phonics for Yourself
- Dolch Reading Program
- Early Reading Intervention (ERI)
- Early Success Earobics
- Edmark Reading Program
- Electronic Bookshelf
- Elements of Reading: Comprehension
- Elements of Reading: Fluency
- Elements of Reading: Vocabulary
- Essential Learning System
- Failure Free Reading
- Fast Track Reading
- First Steps Fluency
- First Fluency Formula
- Fluent Reader
- FOCUS Reading and Language Program
- Foundations and Frameworks
- Fountas Pinnell Units of Study (Heineman)
- Fundations
- Funnix Reading Programs
- Glass-Analysis method
- Great Books
- Great Leaps
- Harcourt Collections
- Harcourt Signatures
- Harcourt Trophies
- Houghton Mifflin Nation's Choice
- Houghton Mifflin Reading
- Headsprout Early Reading
- Hooked on Phonics®
- Horizons
- HOSTS Houghton Mifflin
- Horizons
- Houghton Mifflin Invitations to Literacy
- Houghton Mifflin Legacy of Literacy
- Imagine It!
- IndiVisual Reading
- Intensive Reading Strategies
- Instruction (IRSI) Model
- Intensive Supplemental Reading
- Invitations to Literacy
- Irlen Method
- Jacob's Ladder
- Jostens/Compass Learning
- Kaleidoscope
- Kindergarten Works
- K-W-L strategy
- Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling Language First!
- Language for Thinking
- LANGUAGE!
- LeapTrack Assessment & Instruction System
- Learning Experience Approach
- Learning to Read
- Learning Upgrade
- Lexia Lightspan
- Like to Read
- Lindamood-Bell
- LiPS
- LitART
- Literacy by Design
- Literacy Seminar
- Little Books
- Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Treasures
- Making Connections
- McGraw-Hill Reading
- McGraw-Hill Spotlight on Literacy
- McGraw-Hill Treasures/Triumphs
- McRAT
- Merit Software
- My Reading Coach
- Open Book Anywhere
- OpenBook to Literacy
- Pathways
Phonetics First-Focus on Sounds - Phonics and Friends
- Phonics First Foundations
- Phonics for Reading
- Phono-Graphix
- Project Read
- Putting Reading First in Your Classroom
- Questioning the Author
- Quicktionary
- Reading Pen II
- Read Naturally
- Read Now
- READ RIGHT
- Read, Write & Type!
- ReadAbout Reading Apprenticeship
- Reading Horizons
- Reading in the Content Areas
- Reading Plus
- Reading Success
- Reading to Learn
- Reading Triumphs
- Reading Upgrade
- Read Well
- Responsive Classroom
- Rigby Reading
- Rosetta Stone Literacy
- S.P.I.R.E. and Sounds Sensible
- Saxon Phonics
- Scaffolded Reading Experience
- Schoolwide Enrichment Reading Model (SEM-R)
- Seeing Stars
- SIM-Stategic Instruction Model
- Six Minute Solution
- Slingerland
- Smart Way Reading and Spelling
- Sound Sheets
- Spalding Method
- Spell Read
- SRA Reading
- START-IN
- STEPS (Sequential Teaching of Explicit Phonics and Spelling)
- Strategic Literacy Initiative
- Success in Reading and Writing
- SuccessMaker
- Sunshine
- TeachFirst
- Teaching Reading Essentials
- Text Mapping Strategy
- Text Talk
- The Imagination Station
- Thinking Works
- Transactional Strategies Instruction
- Tune in to Reading
- Visualizing and Verbalizing
- Vocabulary Improvement Program
- Voices Reading
- Voyager Passport
- Voyager TimeWarp Plus
- Voyager Universal Literacy
- Wilson Reading
- Wright Group Literacy
- WriteToLearn