The research findings below identify methods proven to be successful in teaching reading skills. These research findings are direct quotes from the National Panel on Reading, requested by the federal government. Content is located at the National Institute for Literacy website.  (See link page)

For verification of Read Kwik (RK) efficiency in design, read the following research  (blue text)  and the system's answer (bulleted in brown) regarding compliance with particular specifics.

Programs of phonics instruction are effective when they are:

"Systematic - The plan of instruction involves a carefully selected set of letter-sound relationships that are organized into a logical sequence."

• Combinations and Borrowers in RK comply with this.

"Explicit -  The programs provide teachers with precise directions for teaching these relationships."

• 3 steps with guidelines provide precise directions for all instructors.

"For children with learning disabilities and children who are low achievers, systematic phonics instruction, combined with synthetic phonics, produce the greatest gains. Synthetic phonics instruction consists of teaching students to explicitly convert letters into phonemes, then blend the phonemes to form words."

• Combinations and Borrowers eliminate the need for this step.

"Evidence supports the utility of teaching 100-200 phonic generalizations, taught in traditional basal text. Most traditional phonics rules did not generalize well enough to justify teaching them. There were more exceptions to rules than instances of the rule."

• RK eliminates this problem completely in 3 steps with Combinations.

"Most important forms of phonemic awareness to teach are blending and segmentation because they are the processes that are centrally involved in reading and spelling words."

• Accomplished by Combinations, Borrowers and marking system

"Evidence from all the research centers show that deficits in phonemic awareness reflect the core deficits in reading disabilities. These deficits are characterized by difficulties in separating syllables in words. Readers have difficulty in turning spelling into sounds."

• RK eliminates need for syllables and teaches accurate sounds with consistent spellings.

"Phonemic awareness alone is not sufficient for many children. Explicit, systematic instruction in common sound-spelling correspondence is also necessary."

• This is precisely what RK is all about.

"Adults with reading problems exhibit the same characteristics exhibited by children with reading problems."

• All software lessons are age appropriate and not demeaning to the reader, regardless of age.

"Most effective instructional programs teach children to read successfully with frequent and highly regular sound-spelling relationships, systematically taught."

• This describes RK system.

"English contains more than 65 unique syllables, (exceptions to the rules), that do not follow a regular consonant-vowel pattern."   

• RK follows precise vowel-consonant patterns, basis for its design.

"Most effective instructional programs teach children to read successfully with only 40-60 sound-spelling relationships."

• Accurate Combination and Borrower spellings and sounds comply with this.

"Word recognition problems arise from breaking apart words and syllables into phonemes. This relationship is apparent in the majority of poor readers, including children, adolescents, and adults at all levels of 'IQ'." 

• RK breaks apart words with Combinations and works with every level of "IQ".

"Research strongly supports the concept that explicitly and systematically teaching children to manipulate phonemes significantly improves children's reading and spelling abilities."

• Students must first find the phoneme - RK teaches the sounds and spelling before reading to accomplish this finding. Little time is wasted in "searching" for phonemes and syllables.

"When children learn how print represents the internal structure of words, they become accurate at word recognition; when they learn to recognize words quickly and automatically, they become fluent."

• RK system teaches precise internal spellings and sound control.

"Process of decoding words never read before involves transforming graphemes into phonemes and then blending to form words with recognizable meanings. This has proved to be a very difficult task."

• This process is no longer needed with RK as the system predetermines the individual sounds and spellings.

"Difficulties developing decoding skills very often arise from difficulties processing sounds in speech and discerning the sub-parts of spoken words. English has thousands of unique syllables that do not follow a regular vowel-consonant pattern."

• RK system replaces syllables and controls most irregular vowel-consonant problems.

"Reading occurs at the level of the single word and involves the ability to decode printed words. The basis of this problem arises in the difficulty in breaking apart words and syllables into phonemes."

• Phonemes are converted into enhanced versions in Combinations.

"Readers should learn the regularities and consistencies and deal with the exceptions as they are met."

• Very few exceptions with RK; this follows how it is taught.