Intervention for Struggling Readers

Intervention for Struggling Readers

1. explicit strategy instruction

   • identifying words
   • determining a word's meaning
   • understanding a text

2. mediated scaffolding

   • support when learning new skills or strategies
   • sequence of tasks in curriculum
   • easier letters and sounds intrtodced before difficult patterns
   • finding an explicit main idea in a paragraph before dealing with implied main ideas in longer passages

3. strategy integration

   • constructing meaning
   • phonemic awareness
     • taught alongside decoding
   • decoding and fluency
     • taught with comprehension of connected text

4. priming background knowledge

   • previous knowledge and skills be reviewed daily before new ideas are introduced

5. judicious review

   • review needs to be cumulative, varied and distributed over time

6. well paced instruction

   • organized
   • several activities within the 30 to 40 minutes
     • focus on content and not procedure
   • promotes student interest, engagement and attention

7. motivation

   • pace of lesson
   • engagement of activities and text
   • growing sense of efficacy

8. reading recovery

   • one on one tutoring program for first graders
   • reviews letter sound knowledge using letter tiles
   • spell words with letter tiles
   • write short story
   • reread old books to build fluency
   • read new books as teacher assists with word recognition strategies

9. early reading intervention

   • small group intervention program for kindergarten and first grade
   • struggling with phonemic awareness, letter sound association, letter name knowledge, blending and word reading
   • tightly scripted program
   • teacher makes few decisions