West Clermont Local Schools are participating in a breakthrough literacy intervention program known as RAVE-O, or retrieval, automaticity, vocabulary, engagement, orthography. The name refers to many of the different ways the human mind processes information as it reads and is generally a reference to the fluency side of reading. The major goal is to teach struggling readers in multiple ways and over different exposures what their brains can do on their own.

The instruction is sequenced so the child is immediately connecting the various types of language information about a word in the same instructional hour. Children are taught core words each week on the premise that the more a child knows about a word, the faster and better the word is read and understood.