Strategies to Achieve Reading Success (STARS)
Overview
Focus
Specific Skills
- Comprehension
Program Length
School Year
Program Description
"STARS focuses on the 12 key reading strategies to improve students' reading ability: finding main ideas, recalling facts and details, understanding sequence, recognizing cause and effect, comparing and contrasting, making predictions, finding word meaning in context, drawing conclusions and making inferences, distinguishing fact from opinion, identifying author's purpose, interpreting figurative language, and summarizing."
Visit Program WebsiteCost
Prices of individual or bundled manuals, workbooks, and guides vary from $3.99-$399.00
More Pricing DetailsDemographics & Delivery
Intended Population
- Any
Grade
- Elementary School
- Middle School
Intended Group Size
- Classroom
ELL/DLL
- Partial
Multisensory Applications
- No
Computer-Based Delivery
- Full
Scripted
- None
Program Specifics
Comprehensive or Skill Specific
- Skill Specific
Placement Tests
- Yes
Accelerated Learning
- Yes
Assessment to Monitor Skills Mastery
- Yes
Error Correction Built In
- No
Fidelity Measures Provided by Publisher
- Unspecified
Research & Evaluation
Research Summary
Literature review of studies reviewing the STARS reading program revealed mixed results. Because the program contains an assessment tool (CARS) with similar items taught via the STARS program, the medium-large effect sizes reported may be an overestimate of skills obtained.
Study Citations
Educational Research Institute of America. (2011). A study of the instructional effectiveness of CARS & STARS (Rep. No. 401). Cheltenham, Australia: Hawker Brownlow
Fischer, N. (2017). Implementing the STARS program to improve reading comprehension (Master's thesis, Northwestern College). Orange City: NWCommons.
Evidence Base (ESSA)
- No studies met inclusion requirements
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)
- Insufficient evidence