“We were never born to read. We build the reading brain circuit one child at a time.”
Dr. Maryanne Wolf
Co-Founder · Cognitive Neuroscientist
RAVE-O AUTHOR
RENOWNED SCHOLAR
1,000s
Students supported
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Evidence-backed, comprehensive approach
The RAVE-O program
One program. A multi-componential approach to the reading brain. Where Science meets Story.
RAVE-O's core components work together: phonology, orthography, semantics, syntax, understanding, and morphology, all impemented through a systematic integration with connected text.
Curriculum
Fully scripted daily lessons that build fluency, decoding, vocabulary, and comprehension together.
Research
Built on 20 years of NICHD-funded studies into how the reading brain develops and changes in struggling readers.
Materials
Everything a classroom needs: lesson decks, decodable books, workbooks, and assessments.
IMPLEMENTATION
Find your path.
RAVE-O adapts to whomever is teaching or supporting the reader. Explore the path that fits.
Schools & Districts
Bring RAVE-O to your Tier 2/3 block with training and implementation support.
Parents
Work with your reader at home using the same evidence-based method as the classroom.
ELL Students
RAVE-O’s deep vocabulary and semantic work gives multilingual readers a strong foundation.
The science
POSSUM: our Multi-componential approach to lasting reading gains.
RAVE-O is the only program that systematically integrates the POSSUM Approach with Deep Reading. RAVE-O goes beyond phonics and phoneme awareness by integrating phonology, orthography, semantics, syntax, understanding, and morphology with connected text in every lesson. In so doing, RAVE-O teaches how the english language works.
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Effect size .99
RAVE-O saw average effect sizes of .99 (Lovett et al, 2017) across 14 different measures when combined with other structured literacy programs.
Vocabulary gains
Sustained a full year after the intervention ended (Morris et al).
Fluency & comprehension gains
Measured via the Gray Oral Reading Test (Lovett et al).
Findings from NICHD-funded randomized controlled trials.
The founder
A career spent understanding the reading brain and dyslexia.
Dr. Wolf is Director of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice at UCLA and author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain, and Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World. Her research is a part of the foundation of the Science of Reading and Structured Literacy.
UCLA Center Director
150+ published papers
Award winning Author & Scholar
Parent of a child with dyslexia
RAVE-O is an incredibly innovative intervention program. Through its comprehensive POSSuM approach, RAVE-O provides both effective and fun ways to build the wiring of the reading brain. RAVE-O’s emphasis on the meanings of words (and connections between words) extends vocabulary development in unique ways, enabling countless opportunities for creative expression and deep thinking from Day One of lessons. During my years of private practice teaching this imaginatively designed program was always my favorite to use, offering my students joyful and intellectually engaging learning experiences as they mastered essential reading/writing skills.
— Nancy Young, Co-Author of The Ladder to Reading
