The RAVE-O Program

Explicit, Structured, Multi-Component

Reading Intervention

Designed for Students in Grades
1-4 as a Tier II and III reading intervention

Overview

RAVE-O is a unique approach to teaching children to read, particularly those who struggle.

It embodies research on the reading brain through an expanded understanding of foundational skills, fluency, and deep-reading comprehension (see details under RAVE-O).

It is based on extensive research with small groups of learners from Grades 1-4. It is often implemented in multi-tier instruction for Tier 2 and Tier 3 learners. It is especially important for children with fluency-related issues (e.g., as indexed by naming speed or RAN performance).

Based on neuroscience of reading and research on dyslexia and struggling readers
Emphasizes expanded view of foundational skills and their explicit connections to each other, to fluency, and to deep reading comprehension
Uses metacognitive strategies to promote attention, memory, & executive function processes
Promotes learner engagement through emphases on individual, cultural, and language strengths
Empowers learners through group-work on a mindset towards resiliency and perseverance
Progress-monitoring through ongoing informal assessment (Possum Checks)
Develops an appreciation for the “Language of Literature” and joy of reading

RAVE-O® is a small-group, evidence-based literacy intervention curriculum for students in grades 2–4, which empowers them to read text deeply to build new knowledge, develop new ideas, and reach new levels of reading achievement.

Accelerates learning
Prevents and closes the reading achievement gap
Improves student performance across key literacy domains
Promotes fluency, comprehension, and deep reading
Progress monitored through ongoing, informal assessments

Evidence

More than 15 years of NICHD-funded, gold-standard, randomized control treatment studies. Findings demonstrate significant increases in multiple reading and language areas, including word attack, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

Connecting the Parts

RAVE-O is the only program to simultaneously integrate phonology, orthography, semantics, syntax, understanding the alphabetic principle, and morphology with the same corpus of words.

Fluent Comprehension

This integration leads to fluent comprehension, particularly deep reading processes like inference, empathy and critical analysis.

Multisensory Activities

RAVE-O includes multisensory activities like art and poetry

that emphasize the strengths of neurodivergent learners.