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Did you know?
  • Spalding directly teaches all components identified by the National Reading Panel as essential for reading success:
    • Phonemic Awareness
    • Phonics
    • Fluency
    • Vocabulary
    • Comprehension
  • Spalding teaches handwriting because children who form their letters correctly are more likely to recognize them when reading text.

Download two publications to share with school board members, teachers and home educators.
  • How The Writing Road to Reading addresses essential instructional components outlined in the NRP Report
  • The Research Basis for The Writing Road to Reading and evidence for its effectiveness.
Hard copies are available from SEI.

Why Spalding Works:
Read an in-depth interview by Linda Schrock Taylor with Dr. Mary North, Director of Research and Curriculum.

Watch the "Reading and Loving it" 12 minute demonstration video to learn more about The Spalding Method. Filmed in an actual classroom. View Spalding in action.

Reading and Language Test Scores

Schools in which The Spalding Method is properly implemented clearly exceed national, state, and district scores.

These reports compare specific Spalding schools with national, state, and district reading and language percentile rank scores on norm-referenced standardized tests administered each year. Each school listed has formally adopted Spalding as the basic language arts program and has provided Spalding training and follow-up for its entire faculty.

2004 Special Report in PDF format.*
2003 Special Report in PDF format.
2002 Special Report in PDF format.
2001 Special Report in PDF format.

Arizona Achievement Testing

The following charts compare Spalding Schools national percentile rank scores with state and national percentile rank scores for reading and language in grades two through eight on the Arizona Stanford Achievement Test, Ninth Edition.
*Arizona no longer adminsters the Stanford Achievement test.


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2000 Arizona Test Scores
1999 Arizona Test Scores
1998 Arizona Test Scores
1997 Arizona Test Scores

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