Top-rated programmes

Provides extensive training and materials focused on co-operative learning, phonics, and a rapid pace of instruction. Also provides tutoring to struggling children, mostly age 6/7.

Provides the lowest achieving readers (lowest 20%) in year 2 with supplemental tutoring in addition to their normal reading classes.

Website: www.readingrecovery.ioe.ac.uk/ E-mail: readrec@ioe.ac.uk

A supplementary programme designed to increase fluency, build vocabulary and background knowledge, and improve comprehension.

Website: www.quickreads.org Available to purchase from: sheila.crowe@pearson.com

A programme for children who have the most significant literacy difficulties and who are in the beginning stages of learning to read and write.  Children who take part in the programme will usually have had previous support in school. The programme is individually tailored, and delivered by intensively trained teachers and teaching assistants. Currently available only in Cumbria and Rochdale.  North Yorkshire has also developed a small group version of the intervention.   (Nb. This programme was known as Reading with Phonology during development).

Contact: crl@psych.york.ac.uk

Information about the programme in Cumbria: www.cumbria.gov.uk/childrensservices/reading

Programmes:

1) Auditory Discrimination in Depth (TT)

2) Early Steps/Howard Street Tutoring (TT)

3) Intensive Reading

4) Reading Rescue (TT)

1) US website:

www.lindamoodbell.com/programs/lips.html

2) Contact: morrisrd@appstate.edu

3) Contact: blachman@syr.edu

4) US website: www.literacytrust.org/rrprogram/index.htm

A highly structured, phonetic approach to reading instruction that emphasizes phonics, a step-by-step teaching approach, and direct teaching of comprehension skills, as well as extensive professional development and follow-up.

CTP, SGT

US website: www.nifdi.org

Contact: info@nifidi.org

A technique in which children work in pairs, taking turns as teacher and learner, to learn a structured sequence of literacy skills, such as phonemic awareness, phonics, sound blending, passage reading, and story re-telling.

US website: www.kc.vanderbilt.edu/pals/

Contact: pals@venderbilt.edu

A one-to-one tutoring model in which classroom teachers work individually with struggling readers in Years 1 and 2 for 15 minutes a day. The 1-1 sessions focus on re-reading for fluency (2 min.), word work (6 min.), and guided oral reading (7 min.).

Contact: lynnevf@email.unc.edu

1) Sound Partners (TPara)

2) The Reading Connection (T-Para)

3) SMART (T-Para)

4) Reading Rescue (TPara)

5) Howard Street Tutoring (T-Para)

1) E-mail: partners@wri-edu.org

2) Website: www.thereadingconnection.org

3) Website: www.getsmartoregon.org

4) Website: www.literacytrust.org/rrprogram/index.htm

5) E-mail: morrisrd@appstate.edu

A co-operative learning programme designed to help pupils develop metacognitive strategies for comprehending narrative and expository text.