Research: Chamberlain High School

***The research findings below are based on the Reading Horizons® reading intervention program and uses an explicit phonics instruction methodology. See the full reading curriculum line up here.***

Summary of Findings

After receiving Reading Horizons instruction, every student in the study made at least one grade-level gain on the Word Recognition Assessment.

Background

A high school resource teacher implemented the Reading Horizons program with 32 students. Pre- and post-test scores for all of the students were gathered before and after the students had used the Reading Horizons interactive software.

Resources

Reading Horizons interactive software and a resource teacher trained in the Reading Horizons method.

Implementation

Thirty-two students participated in the study. Sixteen students were designated as linguistically diverse and learning English (Group 1), and 16 students were receiving special education services (Group 2).