Questions to Ask Re: Your Child's Reading Program

• If your child is having reading difficulties the district will often try to avoid doing anything tht is research based to help them your child.  By law the programs used must be research based and the shool must collect data in order to know if what they are doing is helping, if it isn't helping the district must change their methods. 

  
  

  When they offer a program we need to ask:

  1. Is this a research based program?

  2. How will it be implemented?

  3. How will data be taken?
  4. Has the research been peer reviewed?
  5. Who did or funded the research? If it was done by the manufacturer or marketer, you wnat to know if ther eis additional research.
  6. What population is the research based on? It should be based on the same group that they are planning to use the program with. IE: If research was with gen ed, may not work with Special ed, ELL won't tell you if it works with Special ed either.
  7. How large was the study group?

  
  

  If the district says they are implementing a reading program we need to ask:

  1. What is the district doing to help my child's reading improve?

  2. Are they using a research based program?

  3. How have they been implementing the program?

  4. Can we look at the data?
  
  

  5. Has the research been peer reviewed?
  6. Who did or funded the research? If it was done by the manufacturer or marketer, you wnat to know if ther eis additional research.
  7. What population is the research based on? It should be based on the same group that they are planning to use the program with. IE: If research was with gen ed, may not work with Special ed, ELL won't tell you if it works with Special ed either.
  8. How large was the study group?