The Hill Reading Achievement Program (HillRAP) was orginally developed as an initiative of The Hill Center, conducted in collaboration with the North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation and Durham Public Schools. HillRAP is a program in which struggling readers are pulled out of their regular classrooms daily for short periods of time to receive specialized instruction.

HillRAP uses The Hill Center Methodology with minor adaptations to meet the needs of students and teachers in a public school setting. The curriculum has been modified so that it can be implemented in a class period ranging from 45 minutes to 1 hour. There are no more than four students in each HillRAP class. The Hill Reading Achievement Program takes The Hill Center reading curriculum and segments it in to eight levels ranging from pre-reading skills to decoding and various comprehension skills and strategies.

Each level has the following components:

• Oral Drill
  
• Phonological Awareness
  
• Word Attack/Sight Words
  
• Fluency
  
• Vocabulary
  
• Reading/Comprehension

Each level of the Hill Reading Achievement Program includes carefully selected material that are used for instruction. Students use workbooks that target the specific phonetic patterns taught at each level and use controlled readers and EOG materials to supplement instruction in reading and comprehension.