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Corrective Reading is designed to promote reading accuracy (decoding), fluency, and comprehension skills of students in third grade or higher who are reading below their grade level. The program has four levels that address students' decoding skills and six levels that address students' comprehension skills. All lessons in the program are sequenced and scripted. Corrective Reading can be implemented in small groups of four to five students or in a whole-class format. Corrective Reading is intended to be taught in 45-minute lessons four to five times a week. For the single study reviewed in this report, only the word-level skills components of the Corrective Reading program were implemented.
One study of Corrective Reading met the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) evidence standards. This study included 79 third-grade students in Pennsylvania. 2
The WWC considers the extent of evidence for Corrective Reading to be small for alphabetics, fluency, and comprehension. No studies that met WWC evidence standards with or without reservations addressed general reading achievement.
Corrective Reading was found to have potentially positive effects on alphabetics and fluency and no discernible effects on comprehension.
| Alphabetics | Fluency | Comprehension | General reading achievement | |
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| Rating of effectiveness | Potentially postive | Potentially postive | No discernible effects | na |
| Improvement index3 | Average: +9 percentile points Range: +1 to +13 percentile points |
Average: +11 percentile points | Average: +7 percentile points Range: +2 to +11 percentile points |
na |
| na = not applicable | ||||
|Institute of Education Sciences
