Research Base

• Key Areas of Effective Adolescent Literacy Programs
  This paper reviews best practices for effective adolescent literacy programs. A focus is placed on five areas of literacy instruction including word study, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and motivation. Each of these areas is discussed as well as how each area is relevant to reading and understanding narrative and content-area text at high levels.

Randomized Controlled Studies

• Washington Striving Readers - Year 1 Evaluation Report
  The research report findings demonstrated that it is possible to make a statistically significant difference in struggling students’ overall literacy achievement in the course of one school year. Students in the Washington Striving Readers intervention study using Read to Achieve performed better on the state reading assessment than did students in the control condition, who did not receive any supplemental reading support.

• Grade 6-8 Narrative to CCSS
• Grade 6-8 Content to CCSS