- Improve reading, which contributes to overall academic and social progress
- Increase errorless responding and pupil independence.
- Monitor pupil progress, allowing students to observe, and self-evaluate their own performances.
- Maximize student academic engagement.
- Minimize student error and increase the likelihood of steady progress.
- Increase reading and academic self-confidence.
- Allow students to work at their own, but increasingly accelerated pace.
- Promote an eagerness to achieve and foster positive reading attitudes.
- Promote student independence in reading.
- Develop ORF that leads to proficient levels.
- Promote mastery learning, which is more likely to sustain itself over time.
- Celebrate/affirm student improvements