As a special education teacher and tutor, I would like to know what are good reading programs up to high school level?
What about programs for math and writing through all the grades?
We recommend Orton-Gillingham based programs. These programs have over 60 years of research that supports their effectiveness and they work for everyone.
It’s hard to understand why schools resist using them.
Direct Instruction has a good track record. This website contains information on Direct Instruction’s extensive and broad research base.
Here’s a “one stop shopping” resource that will answer some of your questions about evidence based reading and math programs at different education levels.
Find out which educational programs have been successfully evaluated in valid research.
Not many math programs have solid research to support them.
If you go to the Best Evidence site, and click Reading and “Beginning,” you’ll see 3 programs that have “strong evidence of effectiveness.”
- Reading Reels
- Success for All
If you click Reading programs for Upper Elementary and Middle/High School, you’ll see no reading programs with strong evidence of effectiveness.
Good educational programs are the programs that have research that supports their use.