IOWA READS just released a report on the after-school program they sponsor at a local Boys and Girls Club. The project utilizes Corrective Reading Decoding to help students in grades 3-5 and FUNNIX in grades K-2. The results are quite impressive.

Corrective Reading Results
The 23 third grade Corrective Reading students improved an average of 323 points on the Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI), compared to the average 157 point improvement made by their classmates that did not participate in the project! The 24 fourth grade students who have been in the project for 2 years made an improvement of 490 points, versus the 240 point improvement of their non-participating peers.

FUNNIX Results
The FUNNIX program was introduced at the Kindergarten level 4 years ago to assist students in catching up on the skills that many of their peers learned at home before entering the school system. Thirty of the lowest performing students were included in the treatment group and scored a 20 on the Formative Assessment for Students and Teachers (FAST). The remaining 65 students scored a 35 on the FAST. Substantial gains were made in the course of one year of FUNNIX instruction, nearly eliminating the performance gap between the two groups. For additional information on FUNNIX, a computer-based DI program go to http://www.funnix.com

The full report can be accessed pdf here .