Data reveal that when students who are reading below grade level at the end of first grade do not receive adequate intervention, the gap between them and academic achievers grows with each grade level.

Read Well reflects current and confirmed research on how students learn to read and on effective teaching strategies. As the University of Oregon's Center on Teaching and Learning recommends, carefully designed studies have been conducted in diverse schools across the country to demonstrate the efficacy of the program.² Read Well meets A Consumer's Guide to Analyzing a Core Reading Program's criteria for explicit, systematic primary instruction in the critical areas of phonemic awareness, phonics/decoding, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency.