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Educational Insights, Research

The Benefits of Cascade Reading: Supporting Diverse Readers

Cascade Reading leads to many benefits. In this blog, we focus on how it directly supports neurodiverse and linguistically diverse populations while enabling the general population to approach reading comprehension with flexible personalization options.

Educational Insights, Research

The Benefits of Cascade Reading: Motivation, Preference, & Anxiety

Cascade Reading leads to many benefits. In this blog, we focus on how it improves motivation, mitigates anxiety, and is highly preferred by a variety of readers.

Educational Insights, Research

The Benefits of Cascade Reading: Comprehension, Fluency, & Syntax

Cascade Reading leads to many benefits. In this blog, we focus on how it scaffolds core literacy skills.

Improving Syntactic Knowledge in the Elementary Grades with Cascade Reading: Findings from a Semester-Long Longitudinal Study

New data shows a significant relationship between exposure to the Cascade Format, reading comprehension outcomes, and syntactic knowledge.

Cascade Reading in Real Classrooms: Evidence for Boosts in Comprehension, Confidence, and Oral Reading Fluency

Real teachers used Cascade Reading in their classrooms for the past year and reported gains in Oral Reading Fluency, Comprehension, and Confidence.

Cascade Reading as a Language Learning Technology

Overwhelmingly positive feedback from a semester-long Spanish learning study with University students.

New Findings Reveal High Preference for the Cascade Format for Readers with Dyslexia and ADHD

Encouraging results from two recent survey studies.

White Paper Announcement! Cascade Reading Improves Elementary Reading Comprehension: A Corroborative Longitudinal Study

Results from a year-long longitudinal study reconfirm evidence showing that the Cascade Format improves reading comprehension for elementary students.

Eye movements while reading Cascaded Text reveal comprehension and efficiency benefits

To understand how readers extract meaning from text, it is important to understand detailed information relating to their behaviors while reading. Although reading speed and oral fluency can speak to some level of reading proficiency, these metrics do not reveal specific information about the processes by which text is comprehended.

New Data from Elementary Students Reconfirms Power of Cascade Reading

Part of what makes the scientific process so powerful is our ability to replicate, or retest, previous findings.