Here's the longitudinal study on the SMART reading program that a person might wish to reference when researching supplemental elementary school reading programs or volunteer-delivered reading programs. (The sample included 43 SMART students and 41 non-SMART students.)

Eugene Research Institute study’s findings that were published in the October/November/December 2000 issue of Reading Research Quarterly: ERI Study

Barb Gibbs

Reading on the Rise: A New Chapter in American Literacy
Reading on the Rise documents a definitive increase in rates and numbers of American adults who read literature. This new growth reverses two decades of downward trends cited previously in NEA reports such as Reading at Risk and To Read or Not To Read. Reading on the Rise is based on early results from the 2008 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts. January 2009. 16 pp. National Endowment for the Arts

Download PDF: http://www.nea.gov/research/ReadingonRise.pdf