Primary 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”.
- Accelerated Reader (ICT)
- CCC (ICT)
- Classworks (ICT)
- ECRI (IP)
- Elements of Reading: Comprehension (Curr)
- Elements of Reading: Fluency (Curr)
- Elements of Reading: Vocabulary (Curr)
- Failure Free Reading (IP)
- Fast ForWord (ICT)
- Fluency Formula (Curr)
- Harcourt (Curr)
- Houghton Mifflin (Curr)
- Jacobs Ladder (Curr)
- Jostens (ICT)
- Kaplan SpellRead (Curr & IP)
- Reading Together (IP)
- Responsive Classroom (IP)
- Rigby (Curr)
- Reading Street (Curr)
- Success in Reading and Writing (IP)
- WICAT (ICT)
- Wilson Reading (Curr + IP)
N No Qualifying Studies
No studies met inclusion standards
UK programmes lacking qualifying studies:
- Can Do Cubes, Can Do Education
www.candocubes.com/synthetic-phonics.php - 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/ - 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 - 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 Strategy
www.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/clld - Lexia Early, Foundation and Quick Reading Test, Lexia
www.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 - PM (Nelson Thornes)
www.nelsonthornes.com/pm/ - POPAT: Programme of Phoneme Awareness Training
www.popat.co.uk - Read Write Inc, OUP
www.oxfordprimary.co.uk - Say Cheese! Early Years and Say Cheese Infants
Contact:jamie.bayliss@sherston.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 - Splash Phonics (Rising Stars)
www.risingstars-uk.com - Storyworlds (Heinemann/Pearson)
www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk - Tell a Tale 2
www.4mation.co.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
- Achieve 3000
- AfterSchool KidzLit
- Alphabetic Phonics
- Barton Reading & Spelling System
- Be a Better Reader
- Breakthrough to Literacy
- Caught Reading
- Charlesbridge Reading Fluency
- Compass Learning (current version)
- Comprehension Plus
- Comprehension Upgrade
- Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI)
- CRISS / Project CRISS
- Cross-Aged Literacy Program
- Destination Reading
- Direct Instruction
- Disciplinary Literacy
- Discover Intensive Phonics for Yourself
- Dolch® Reading Program
- Early Success
- Earobics
- Edmark Reading Program
- Electronic Bookshelf
- Essential Learning Systems
- Fast Track Reading
- First Steps
- Fluency First
- Fluent Reader
- FOCUS Reading and Language Program
- Fundations
- Funnix Reading Programs
- Glass-Analysis method
- Great Leaps
- Headsprout Early Reading
- Hooked on Phonics
- Horizons
- HOSTS
- The Imagination Station
- Imagine It!
- IndiVisual Reading
- Intensive Reading Strategies
- Instruction (IRSI) Model
- Intensive Supplemental Reading
- Invitations to Literacy
- Irlen Method
- Junior Great Books
- Kaleidoscope
- Kaplan SpellRead
- KidBiz3000 and TeenBiz 3000
- Knowledge Box
- K-W-L strategy
- LANGUAGE!
- Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling
- Language First!
- Language for Thinking
- LeapTrack Assessment &Instruction System
- Learning to Read
- Learning Experience Approach
- Learning Upgrade
- Lexia
- Like to Read
- Lindamood-Bell
- LiPS
- LitART
- The Literacy Center
- Literacy Seminar
- Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Treasures
- Making Connections
- McGraw-Hill Reading
- McRAT
- Merit Software
- Open Book Anywhere
- Open Book to Literacy
- Open Book Anywhere
- Orchard
- Orton-Gillingham Approach
- Pathways
- Phonetics First-Focus on Sounds
- Phonics First Foundations
- Phonics and Friends
- Phonics for Reading
- Phono-Graphix
- PLATO
- Project Read
- Putting Reading First in Your Classroom
- Questioning the Author
- QuickReads
- Quicktionary Reading Pen II
- Rave-O
- REACH
- READ 180
- ReadAbout
- Read Naturally
- Read Now
- READ RIGHT
- Read, Write & Type!
- Reading Apprenticeship
- Reading in the Content Areas
- Reading Horizons
- Reading to Learn
- Reading Plus
- Reading Success
- Reading Triumphs
- Reading Upgrade
- Reciprocal Teaching
- REWARDS
- Rosetta Stone Literacy
- Saxon Phonics
- Scaffolded Reading Experience
- Seeing Stars
- SIM-Stategic Instruction Model
- Six Minute Solution
- Slingerland
- Smart Way Reading and Spelling
- Soar to Success
- Soliloquy Reading Assistant
- Sound Sheets
- Spalding Method
- S.P.I.R.E. and Sounds Sensible
- Spell Read P.A.T.
- SRA Reading
- START-IN
- STEPS (Sequential Teaching of Explicit Phonics and Spelling)
- Strategic Literacy Initiative
- SuccessMaker
- Sunshine
- TeachFirst
- Teaching Reading Essentials
- Text Mapping Strategy
- Text Talk
- Thinking Works
- Transactional Strategies Instruction
- Tune in to Reading
- Visualizing and Verbalizing
- Vocabulary Improvement Program
- Voices Reading
- Voyager TimeWarp Plus
- Voyager Passport
- Waterford Early Reading System
- Wisconsin Design for Reading Skills Development (WDRSD)
- Wright Group LiteracyWriteToLearn