Ask to see the research. The publisher should be able to provide that. Just using a research-based, peer-reviewed method is not enough, though. A child must be shown to make PROGRESS. Ask the teacher to do baseline testing (which will show exactly where your child is reading TODAY) and then do the same testing at the end of the year (or earlier if you think he is not making enough progress). If this program does not work for HIM, it does not matter what the research shows. PROGRESS is the standard used by Hearing Officers when determining appropriateness. So a reading program must first be reasearch-based but second it must be able to help the child make "more than trivial progress" at meeting standards.I checked out the site and it says it is research based and data driven. I have never heard of it though.I asked the resource room teacher which program they use for reading for
my son and she said 'We might use Read Well and have early readers
reading books.' My ds is about one year behind in reading. Do Read Well
and early learners books qualify for 'scientific and peer reviewed ' in the
resource room?
Also 3 weeks into school they have not actually started any resource
room time apart from 2 hours of testing.
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