Evidence Based Interventions

A list of interventions for PreK through 12 grade that are evidence-based. 

EIR - Early Interventions in Reading - SRA Early Interventions in Reading (EIR) is a program designed to provide extra instruction to groups of students in grades K-3. It’s designed to work with your core reading program and provides the significant increase in the intensity of instruction that low-level readers need to meet grade-level expectations. Explicit, systematic instruction lessons focus on phonemic awareness, letter-sound correspondences, word recognition and spelling, fluency, and comprehension.

UFLI Foundations - The University of Florida Literacy Institute Foundations provides an explicit and systematic program that teaches students the foundational skills necessary for proficient reading. It follows a carefully developed scope and sequence designed to ensure that students systematically acquire each skill needed and learn to apply each skill with automaticity and confidence. The program is designed to be used for core instruction in the primary grades or for intervention with struggling students in any grade.

Language for Learning - Language for Learning provides young learners with the knowledge and understanding of language they need to achieve proficiency and reading comprehension. This oral language program teaches children the words, concepts, and statements important to both oral and written language, and helps enable them to extend this knowledge to other areas of their development. Designed for kindergarten and primary age school children, as well as ELL learners, Language for Learning gives early students the essential tools and understanding to foster continued educational success! For grades PreK-5. 

Heggerty - A structured and systematic curriculum for phonemic awareness for PreK- grade 2. 

Sound Partners -  Sound Partners is a research-based tutoring program that provides individual instruction in early reading skills. Sound Partners benefits students in grades K–2 who are learning to read and provides intervention for students in grades 2–3.

Corrective Reading Decoding - Corrective Reading is typically taught to students in grades 3 and above whose reading is characterized by misidentified words, confusion of similar words, word omissions or insertions, lack of attention to punctuation, and poor comprehension. Step-by-step lessons are explicit. 

REWARDS - This research-based reading program for grades 4-12 teaches students a flexible strategy for decoding long words and increasing oral and silent reading fluency, particularly in content-area passages.  The REWARDS strategy for decoding long words by segmenting them into parts is key to the creatively designed exercises in this program, and helps students learn to read long words with confidence!  REWARDS can be used as an effective intervention in general and special education, remedial reading, summer school, and after school programs.  

REWARDS Plus - REWARDS Plus is a grade 6-12 research-validated program that builds on students’ familiarity with REWARDS word attack, fluency, and comprehension strategies and provides extra structured practice in authentic content area text. With a focus on close reading of informational texts, critical thinking, extended response items and vocabulary, it’s ideal for struggling readers.   

Read to Achieve - For grade levels 6-12. Tailored to the more complex forms of literacy required in middle and high school, Read to Achieve is the first reading program to teach portable comprehension strategies that students can carry into their content area classes. 

Quick Reads - What is fluency? Author Elfrieda “Freddy” Hiebert says it’s “not speed reading.” Hiebert observes: “What we’re talking about is getting kids to read at rates where they’re not thinking about the words they’re decoding.” QuickReads is a supplemental literacy intervention program that improves students’ fluency, comprehension, and content knowledge. Short, nonfiction texts are read quickly, repeatedly, and meaningfully. The instructional routine takes just 15 minutes a day, 3 to 4 times per week, so it’s easy to fit QuickReads into your curriculum. Use the program with at-risk students, English language learners, and for tutoring. It’s perfect for an after school or summer school program too.

Read Naturally - Read Naturally's research-based reading interventions have helped millions of students become fluent readers and make solid gains in comprehension and vocabulary. Check out our transformative products — available for fluency, phonics, vocabulary, spelling, phonemic awareness, and assessment!

Six Minute Solution -  The Six-Minute Solution is a simple, hassle-free program that builds students’ reading fluency in just six minutes a day. For students in grades K–12, this peer-driven solution pairs same-skill-level students to read age-appropriate nonfiction passages and record each other's progress with fluency and accuracy.