How effective is Project Read?

It is a good structued OG based program. It has lots of mnemonics that it uses to help kids master the code, It has more bells and whistles than PG though. Project Read has a program for writing that is good too, called Project Write

Project Read has a strong track record. It’s been around for at least 25 years. It was designed to be used with the lower third of students and carried on within regular classrooms. Way back in the 80s, Dr. Mary Lee Enfield reported that they had reduced their special ed population to less than 7 percent of students in the school. That included all students who had attended the school over a long period of time as well as special need students who had recently moved in from other schools. The population they worked with in Bloomington, Minnesota, ranged from very wealthy to extreme poverty.

The program is multi-sensory in the sense that in addition to hearing, saying, seeing, and writing, kinesthetic-tactile experiences are offered through writing in sand or on texture. Everything is carefully sequenced. It’s a true Orton-Gillingham program.

One thing I like about Project Read is that it adheres to the standard syllabication rules when one is dealing with advanced code. The comprehension and writing components are excellent.

I adapted aspects from Project Read and other programs to use with my whole first grade class rather than separating the lower third. It worked extremely well.