Reading intervention programs target specific reading skills and strategies like phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary. Interventions are structured in three tiers - tier 1 enhances core instruction for all students, tier 2 prevents or remediates skills for some students below grade level, and tier 3 intensively remediates significantly below grade level students. Effective interventions use differentiated small group instruction, guided reading, and skills-focused lessons to systematically practice skills. Interventions should be balanced, assessment-based, and support both struggling and non-struggling students. Teachers screen students, provide small group and differentiated instruction, continually assess students, and implement instruction based on assessments.

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Structure of Reading
Interventions
By: Brocha Rabinowitz

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Some Reading Intervention Programs
Targeting Reading Strategies and Skill
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Phonemic awareness- PALS
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Phonics- Touch Phonics
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Fluency- Great Leaps
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Comprehension- Harcourt Accelerated
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Vocabulary- Accelerated Vocabulary

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Structure of Reading Intervention
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Tier 1: This program is supplemental and is meant to enhance
the core program for all students.
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Tier 2: This program is to be used to prevent or remediate skill
deficits for students who are somewhat below grade level.
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Tier 3: This program is to be used intensively for students who
are significantly below grade level.

4. + Ways to strengthen/enhance students’ reading
strategies and skills:
Differentiated Instruction- matching instruction to meet the needs
of different students. Implementing small-group instruction to
groups students according to needs and then meeting the needs
of the group.
Alternative Lesson Structures- teachers implement different
activities to meet the small-group instructional needs. Two kinds of
lesson structures teachers can use are:
Guided Reading- Teachers select, introduce, read, and
discuss the text with student. Teachers provide support for
students while they read and introduce to them strategies
to enhance their skills.
Skills-Focused lessons- teachers plan the lessons to
provide the opportunity for a more systematic and focused
practice on a smaller number of basics at a time.

5. + A Few Principles to Follow When
Implementing In-Class Intervention
Instruction
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The teaching of reading strategies may be combines with
authentic reading and writing tasks.
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Teachers should read different genre texts to students on a
daily basis.
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The program being followed should be balanced in instruction
and on multiple theoretical perspectives.
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Teacher should be decision makers.
5.
Reading instruction and intervention should be based on
assessments.
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Reading Programs should support both struggling and nonstruggling students.

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Implementing Instruction
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Screen and monitor students to identify the ones that are
struggling.
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Use guided-reading strategies with small-group instruction a
few times a week.
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Use differentiated instruction to meet the needs of all students.
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Continually evaluate and asses students.
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Implement instruction based on assessments.

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Conclusion
Teachers should research different reading intervention programs
to see which one is the best fit for their students’ based on the
assessments. It’s very important that each student gets the
appropriate help he or she needs in order to be successful.