Reading Horizons® Wins 2026 Tech & Learning Best of Show Award for Secondary Education

The honor recognizes Reading Horizons Elevate, the company's reading intervention program for students in grades 4–12, purpose-built for older learners who need foundational reading support

KAYSVILLE, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Reading Horizons^®, a trusted leader in literacy for more than 40 years, today announced that Reading Horizons Elevate has won the Tech & Learning Best of Show Award for 2026 in the Secondary Education category.

Elevate is a research-based reading intervention program purpose-built for students in grades 4–12, including multilingual learners, students with dyslexia, and striving readers who missed critical foundational skills earlier in their education. The program pairs structured, teacher-led direct instruction with adaptive software that diagnoses individual skill gaps and personalizes instruction across decoding, pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, fluency, and comprehension. Its Reading Library includes 330 illustrated nonfiction passages spanning Lexile measures from 200L to 1390L, giving older students age-appropriate content while they build foundational skills.

Districts have used Elevate to standardize literacy instruction across intervention tiers. One district in Illinois adopted Elevate to address inconsistent phonics instruction across schools and tiers of support; following districtwide implementation, the percentage of students reading at or above grade level increased by 60 percent.

"Reading Horizons Elevate was built to meet students exactly where their gaps are, whether that's a ninth grader who lacks decoding skills or a multilingual learner navigating English for the first time,” said Dr. Shantell Blake, vice president of Education and Outreach, Reading Horizons. “Winning Best of Show tells us the field is starting to recognize what results-driven literacy instruction actually looks like."

Best of Show winners are evaluated by a panel of industry expert judges and editors and selected on points scored against a range of criteria, including innovation, feature set, reliability, and performance. Winners were formally notified during ISTELive and publicly announced on techlearning.com.

"The products nominated for the Best of Show program provide an outstanding overview of technology on the show floor and shine a spotlight on the products, and businesses behind them, who are transforming education in schools around the world," said the Tech & Learning awards editorial team.

For more information about Reading Horizons Elevate, visit https://readinghorizons.com/reading-curriculum/reading-intervention/.

ABOUT READING HORIZONS

For over 40 years, Reading Horizons® has partnered with educators to combat illiteracy through effective, research-based reading instruction. Grounded in Structured Literacy, Reading Horizons provides Pre-K–12 core literacy, K–5 supplemental foundational and language literacy, and K–12 intervention solutions that help all students become confident readers and writers. Learn more at readinghorizons.com and listen to Literacy Talks, a podcast exploring fresh perspectives on literacy, learning, and teaching.