Kaeden Books Are Used in Results-Oriented Successful Reading Program
The Reading Recovery Reading Program uses books from Kaeden Books and other publishers.  The Program began in 1984 in the United States at The Ohio State University and, for students who complete the full intervention program approximately 75% meet grade-level expectations in reading and writing.  Longitudinal studies indicate that most of the participating students who go on to higher grades also do well on standardized tests and maintain their gains in later years.

Highest Marks from Independent Research
Reading Recovery received the highest marks from the What Works Clearinghouse, a division of the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences.  It is important to note that of the 153 beginning reading programs reviewed by the Clearinghouse, ONLY Reading Recovery was found to have positive effects across all four literacy domains and ONLY Reading Recovery received the highest possible rating for general reading achievement. 

The study was a 3-year independent review of the experimental research on Reading Recovery in March 2008.  The WWC study found that Reading Recovery achieved the highest rating on students’ alphabetic skills and general reading achievement.  They found potentially positive effects, the next highest level of evidence, on reading for fluency and on reading for comprehension outcomes. 

Highly Effective Reading Program
Reading Recovery, which uses books from Kaeden Books and other publishers, is a highly effective short-term intervention reading program of one-to-one tutoring for low-achieving first grade students, students who are not grasping the complex strategies that make successful readers.  The evaluation data was compiled on more than 100,000 students per year proving Reading Recovery can work in a variety of schools.

Kaeden Books are used in research-based, statistically valid, highly effective reading programs
Kaeden Books is one of the early U.S. publishers to publish books for the Reading Recovery Reading Program.  Our books have been used in the Reading Recovery Reading Program since early 1991 when we published our first titles, Dressed Up Sammy, Looking for Halloween, Shopping at the Mall, and The Marching Band.  We now have over 180 leveled books, many of which continue to be used in this highly successful intervention program and are included on the Reading Recovery Book List.

We are pleased to have many of our books included on the Reading Recovery approved book list since 1991.

This is very good research that has been confirmed by an independent review.  You can see the report at http://www.whatworks.ed.gov.  Select Beginning Reading, then select Reading Recovery.  To find out more about the Reading Recovery Reading Program go to www.readingrecovery.org.