Paired Reading with peers and parents: factors in effectiveness and new developments

Paired Reading is one of the best researched, most effective, and most costeffective methods of raising children’s attainments in reading. In a recent review of the effectiveness of twenty interventions in reading, Paired Reading ranked as one of the most effective, surpassed only by one or two methods which seemed to have produced spectacular results, but which had only been evaluated with very small numbers of children (Brooks, Flanagan, Henkhuzens and Hutchison, 1998).