RAZ Kids
Overview
Focus
Specific Skills
- General reading ability
Program Length
School year
Program Description
"Provides comprehensive leveled reading resources for students. With hundreds of eBooks offered at 29 different levels of reading difficulty, it's easy to put the right content in every student's hands. Kids access their leveled text through an interactive learning portal designed to keep them motivated and engaged. Every eBook is available in online and mobile formats, and allows students to listen to, read at their own pace, and record themselves reading. Students then take a corresponding eQuiz complete with an extended answer response to test comprehension and determine future instruction needs. Once a child has read ten or more of the leveled eBooks and passed each of the corresponding eQuizzes, they advance on to the next reading level where they have access to lengthier and more difficult text."
Visit Program WebsiteCost
$132/year/classroom
More Pricing DetailsDemographics & Delivery
Intended Population
- Any
Grade
- Elementary School
Intended Group Size
- Classroom
ELL/DLL
- Unspecified
Multisensory Applications
- Yes
Computer-Based Delivery
- Full
Scripted
- Instructor Scripted
Program Specifics
Comprehensive or Skill Specific
- Comprehensive
Placement Tests
- Yes
Accelerated Learning
- Yes
Assessment to Monitor Skills Mastery
- Yes
Error Correction Built In
- Yes
Fidelity Measures Provided by Publisher
- Unspecified
Research & Evaluation
Research Summary
Findings from RAZ kids are inconclusive. The publisher cited an unpublished master's thesis that found reading improvements on Achievements Tests and reading skills following program implementation, but did not include effect sizes. No peer-reviewed research on Raz Kids was found. Therefore, there is insufficient evidence to support this program's efficacy at this time.
Study Citations
Marchland, A. (2015). Using the Raz-Kids reading program to increase reading comprehension and fluency for students with LD (Unpublished master’s thesis). Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ. Retrieved from https://www.learninga-z.com/site/resources/research-and-efficacy/raz-kids-comprehension-fluency?product=4172
Evidence Base (ESSA)
- No studies met inclusion requirements
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)
- Insufficient evidence