Other ratings
Insufficient Evidence of Effectiveness
Qualifying studies do not meet the criteria for “limited evidence of effectiveness.”
Academy of Reading
Destination Reading
Experience Corps
Failure-Free Reading
Fast ForWord
Gottshall Small Group Phonics
Headsprout
HOSTS
New Heights
Knowledgebox
LeapTrack
Plan focus
Read 180
Spell Read
Targeted Intervention
Waterford
Wilson Reading
N No Qualifying Studies
No studies met inclusion standards
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/
Dandelion Readers, Phonic Books www.phonicbooks.co.uk
Debbie Hepplewhite’s Online Synthetic Phonics Programme , Phonics International
Destination Literacy www.riverdeep-learning.co.uk
Discovery World (Heinemann/Pearson) /www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk/
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
Jolly Phonics www. jolly learning.co.uk/
Kids & Co (Rising Stars) www.risingstars-uk.com
Rigby Star, Heinemann www.rigbystar.co.uk
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
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
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
Reading Tree, OUP www.oxfordprimary.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
Splash Phonics (Rising Stars) www.risingstars-uk.com
Storyworlds (Heinemann/Pearson) www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk
If you use programmes which are not listed here, please let us know
Non-UK:
100 Book Challenge
A Comprehensive Curriculum for Early Student Success (ACCESS)
Academic Associates Learning Centers
Accelerated Reader
ALEKS®
ALPHabiTunes
Alpha-Phonics
Balanced Early Literacy Initiative
Barton Reading and Spelling System
Benchmark
BookMARK
Bradley Reading and Language Arts
Breakthrough to Literacy
Bridge
Bridge to Reading
Bring the Classics to Life
CIERA School Change Framework
Comprehensive Early Literacy Learning
Classwide Peer Tutoring©
Compensatory Language Experiences and Reading Program (CLEAR)
Core Knowledge
Cornerstone Literacy Initiative
Curious George Reading and Phonics
DaisyQuest
Davis Learning Strategies™
Discover Intensive Phonics for Yourself
Discovery World
Dominie
Dr. Cupp Readers® & Journal Writers
Early Success
Early to Read
Earobics®
Emerging Readers
Essential Skills
Evidence Based Literacy Instruction
Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction (ECRI)
Fast Track Action
Felipe’s Sound Search
First grade Literacy Intervention Program (FLIP)
First Steps
Flippen Reading Connections™
Fluency Formula
FOCUS: A Reading and Language Program
Four Block Framework
Frontline Phonics
Fundations
Funnix
GOcabulary Program for Elementary Students
Goldman-Lynch Language Stimulation Program
Goldman-Lynch Sounds-in-Symbols
Great Leaps
Guided Discovery LOGO
Guided Reading
Harcourt Accelerated Reading Instruction
Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)
Hooked on Phonics®
Huntington Phonics
IntelliTools Reading
Insights: Reading as Thinking
Invitations to Literacy
Irlen method
Jigsaw Classroom
Johnny Can Spell
Kaleidoscope
KidCentered learning
Knowledge Box
Ladders to Literacy
Language for Learning
Language for Thinking
Leap into Phonics
Letter People
Letterland
LinguiSystems
Literacy Collaborative
Literacy First
Little Books
Little Readers
LocuTour
Matchword
Merit Reading Software Program
Multicultural Reading and Thinking Program (McRAT)
My Reading Coach
New Century Integrated Instructional System
Next Steps
Onward to Excellence
Pacemaker
Pacific Literacy
Pause, Prompt, & Praise©
Peabody Language Development Kits
Performance Learning Systems
Phonemic Awareness in Young Children
Phonics for Reading
Phonics Q
Phono-Graphix
PM Plus Readers
Primary Phonics
Programmed Tutorial Reading
Project Child
Project FAST
Project LISTEN
Project PLUS
Rainbow Reading
Read Well
Reading Bridge
Reading Explorer’s Pathfinders Tutoring Kit
Reading Intervention for Early Success
Reading Rods
Reading Step by Step
Reading Success from the Start
Reading Upgrade
Richards Read Systematic Language Program
Right Start to Reading
Road to the Code
ROAR Reading System
S.P.I.R.E.
SAIL (Second grade Acceleration to Literacy)
Saxon Phonics
Schoolwide Early Language and Literacy (SWELL)
Sing, Spell, Read, and Write (SSRW)
SkillsTutor
Soar to Success
Soliloquy
Sonday System
Sound Reading
Sounds and Symbols Early Reading Program
Spalding Writing Road to Reading
Starfall
Start Up Kit
Stepping Stones to Literacy
STEPS (Sequential teaching of Explicit Phonics and Spelling)
Stories and More
Story Comprehension to Go
Storyteller Guided Reading
Strategies the Work
Student Team Achievement Divisions (STAD)
Successmaker®
Sullivan Program
Super QAR
Teacher Vision®
Ticket to Read
Touchphonics
Tribes learning Communities®
Verticy Learning
Voices Reading
VoWac (Vowel Oriented Word Attack Course)
WiggleWorks
Wright Skills
Writing to Read
Struggling readers
What Works for Struggling Readers?
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Educator's summary
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As web pages
Programmes with limited evidence
Other programmes
Full report (218 pages)
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