The RAVE-O curriculum is a reading fluency and comprehension program for intervention with first through fourth graders struggling to acquire fluency. RAVE-O combines our best knowledge about phonological processes, decoding principles, and vocabulary development with new knowledge about lexical retrieval and automaticity for the subprocesses of reading.

The RAVE-O program is based on a large, three-city (Boston, Atlanta, and Toronto), five year, National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) intervention project, conducted by Maryanne Wolf and her colleagues, Robin Morris and Maureen Lovett, to investigate the efficacy of state-of-the-art reading intervention packages with discrete subtypes of reading-disabled children. RAVE-O was developed and evaluated at Tufts University’s Center for Reading and Language Research. Students who have completed the curriculum have shown significant gains in both specific and global reading skills.

RAVE-O lessons focus on systematic training to achieve accuracy and automaticity in the retrieval of multiple components related to words that include letter and letter-pattern knowledge, multiple meanings, grammar, and morphological endings. Comprehension strategies aimed to enhance the child's predictive, analytical and inferential skills provide a foundation used in all later learning.

RAVE-O is a recommended part of a complete reading acquisition strategy, which would include a phonological analysis program.