Reading Comprehension and Reading Strategies: Dramatic Improvement in 6 Weeks

Special Education students at Gaithersburg High School in Maryland improved their reading comprehension only 6 weeks after starting Sound Reading Solutions. Students had been using Read180 in their remedial reading strategies class and had shown little to no progress. A teacher new to teaching reading began using the Sound Reading program with the class. Immediately, students were engaged and eager to learn to read.

Benefits Achieved:

Sound Reading worked quickly, with measurable results in reading comprehension only 6 weeks.
Teachers were delighted by how easy to use the program was and how it improved reading strategies.
The program sparked an interest in reading in the students that had never been there before.
Students quickly rose to above average in phonemic awareness from far below average.

In almost no time, these students moved from far below average to close to or above average. Students’ phonemic awareness scores quickly rose from well below average to above average, giving them foundational skills and reading comprehension that they can use to continue to improve their reading.

Learn more how Sound Reading Software can help you achieve similar goals in reading comprehension:

Early Reader Reading comprehension ages 4-6
Reading Help for Reading Comprehension ages 6-8
Struggling Readers Reading Strategies ages 9 and up

Reading Comprehension Above Average

Phonemic Awareness up 22%

Student percentile rank increased in each of the three categories, with phonemic awareness increasing the most up to 53%. One student even increased from the 3rd percentile to the 99th percentile meaning he went from reading better than 3% of his peers to better than 99%. Phonemic awareness measures a student’s ability to tell sounds apart from one another and is one of the strongest indicators of reading ability and reading strategies. These students rose from well below average to above average in only six weeks.

Reading Strategies program