Available Elementary Intervention Programs/Resources

Corrective Reading Comprehension A, B1, B2

Designed for students who read without understanding, the
Comprehension programmes develop vocabulary, information, and
comprehension strategies needed for academic success. This programme
gives underachieving readers the opportunity to develop higher order
thinking and reasoning tactics used by successful readers applying prior
knowledge, making inferences, analysing evidence.

Level A: Thinking Basics

For students who have difficulty responding to literal questions and following directions.
Builds the oral language foundation from which other comprehension skills can be
developed. (60 lessons)
Levels B1 and B2: Comprehension Skills
Teaches literal and inferential comprehension strategies. Students read for information and
learn to retain new facts and vocabulary. (B1: 60 lessons, B2: 65 lessons)

Corrective Reading Decoding A, B1, B2, C

http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/sra/correctivereading.htm

Written for students who have difficulty reading accurately and fluently, the Decoding
programmes provide a unique blend of teacher-directed instruction and high-frequency
practice to accelerate decoding. This proven intervention programme progresses from
teaching letter sounds and blending to reading passages typical of textbook material.
Detailed data on performance allows students to monitor their own improvement and
experience success.

Level A: Word-Attack Basics

Appropriate for non-readers. Emphasizes basic decoding skills: rhyming, sounding out,
sentence reading, and story reading. (65 lessons)

Levels B1 & B2: Decoding Strategies

Designed for struggling readers who do not read fluently or who confuse similar words.
Teaches students to become automatic decoders, with the increased self-confidence to;
read 90 words a minute by the end of B1 (65 lessons) and 120 words a minute by the end
of B2. (65 lessons)

Level C: Skill Applications

Created for those who experience difficulty with vocabulary and complex sentence
structures, this programme bridges the gap between advanced word-attack skills and the
ability to read information material. When students complete Decoding C; they read with 98
percent accuracy, and at a rate similar to their peers. (125 lessons)
HELPs Fluency Program
Reading researchers and educators generally agree that the essential components of early
elementary reading instruction should target phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency,
comprehension, and vocabulary. However, many argue that reading fluency is commonly
neglected as a part of a student's core reading curriculum. As such, the primary goal of
HELPS Programs is to strengthen students reading fluency. As students improve reading
fluency, they are better able to focus on and improve other important reading skills,
including comprehension. Because all students must develop reading fluency in order to
become more successful readers, HELPS can be used with students of all levels.

Furthermore, HELPS was designed so that multiple types of teachers (such as regular
education teachers, special education teachers, teacher assistants, school psychologists,
reading specialists, librarians, and school volunteers) can implement HELPS with the many
students who will likely benefit from the Program.

Leveled Literacy Intervention

The Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention System (LLI) is a small-group,
supplementary literacy intervention designed to provide powerful, daily, small-group
instruction. LLI supports learning in both reading and writing, helps students expand their
knowledge of language and words and how they work. The goal of LLI is to bring students to
grade level achievement in reading. Each Level of LLI provides:

Combination of reading, writing, and phonics/word study.

Emphasis on teaching for comprehending strategies.

Specific work on sounds, letters, and words in activities designed to help students
notice the details of written language and learn how words "work."

Close reading to deepen and expand comprehension.

Explicit teaching of effective and efficient strategies for expanding vocabulary.

Explicit teaching for fluent and phrased reading.

Use of writing about reading for the purpose of communicating and learning how to
express ideas for a particular purpose and audience using a variety of strategies.

Read Naturally Masters Edition (ME)

Read Naturally Masters Edition (ME) develops fluency, supports vocabulary development,
and promotes comprehension using the, research-based Read Naturally strategy. ME
materials target specific audiences and feature blackline masters and audio CDs.

Students read along to a recording of the story (teacher modeling) and then practice
reading the story on their own, timing themselves until they can read it at a predetermined
goal rate (repeated reading). They graph their initial and final scores. The graphs show the
students progress over successive stories, which provides positive reinforcement, boosting
confidence and motivating students to continue reading. Students work in Read Naturally
ME three to five times a week for at least 30 minutes a day.
Road to the Code: A Phonological Awareness Program for Young
Children
By Benita A. Blachman, Ph.D., Eileen Wynne Ball, Ph.D., Rochella Black, M.S., & Darlene M.
Tangel, Ph.D., Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co.
Road to the Code is an 11-week program for teaching phonemic awareness and letter sound
correspondence for kindergartners and first graders who are having difficulty with early
literacy skills. The program contains 44, 15-20 minute lessons featuring three activities
Say-It-and-Move-It, Letter Name and Sound Instruction, and Phonological Awareness
Practice.

Sound Partners - A Tutoring Program in Phonics-Based Early Reading

Author: Joseph Jenkins, Julia Peyton, Mary Firebaugh, Rollanda O'Connor, Susan Wayne, Patricia
Vadasy Grades: K-1

Sound Partners helps struggling early readers who are below benchmark in phonemic awareness
and phonics. Using initial sound, phoneme segmentation, nonsense word, and letter-naming
fluencies, tutors help students build fundamental reading skills in 30-minute one-on-one
sessions.

Words Their Way

Words Their Way is a foundational program that helps students develop those foundational
skills targeted in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Specifically, Words Their Way
supports the CCSSs Reading Foundational Skills and Language Standards in Grades K5.
The depth and breadth of word knowledge developed through the Words Their Way
approach to word study also supports the Common Cores emphasis on students reading
more complex literary and informational texts.

Words Their Way: Word Study in Action Developmental Model aligns students spelling
development into the following five research-based stages. This developmental model
recognizes the synchronous nature of reading, writing, and spelling, and has identified
common characteristics of readers, writers, and spellers along the literacy continuum.

Technology Programs
Raz-Kids
The Raz-Kids animated leveled books and interactive quizzes give educators choices.
Students listen to books read aloud, read with vocabulary and pronunciation
support, and read without support. They read freely in the bookroom. Or, teachers
easily limit students to appropriate reading levels and specific books and track student
reading progress. Students can practice reading to improve reading comprehension
and reading fluency anywhere with Internet access.
Successmaker
Well-Correlated to the Common Core State Standards. With a strong focus on developing
critical skills for reading, speaking and mathematics, SuccessMaker provides real world
problems to help activate the link between accessing prior knowledge and acquiring new
abilities to strongly develop and improve comprehension.

One-on-One Instruction. With a strong focus on the most critical math and reading
concepts, individualized learning for every student becomes a reality with SuccessMaker.
Embedded assessment finds just the right starting point in the curriculum and the programs
dynamic presentation of content focuses instruction on areas where each learners skills
need to be strengthened.

Real Engagement. SuccessMaker delivers content through a highly engaging interface that
makes math and reading instruction, practice and assessment fun. The program is highly
interactive, addressing multiple learning modalities and making students active participants
in their learning and the game-like formats of many activities are challenging and
motivating so learners cant wait to use the program.

Powerful Data. SuccessMaker ends the guesswork with ongoing, embedded assessment and
on-demand reporting making it easy to identify strengths and weaknesses, track progress,
meet accountability requirements and inform instruction.

Ticket to Read
www.tickettoread.com
Ticket to Read is a self-paced, student-centered online reading program that provides
dynamic skills practice and improved reading performance. A motivating and fun reward
system keeps students on task to learn critical word attack skills and phonics skills
development.

Ticket to Read includes:

Hundreds of high-interest reading passages and games

Interactive activities, automated quizzes, and self-correcting guidance

Appropriate reading levels from pre-primer to 7.0

Multiple entry points to address individual student needs

Integrated online data-management (VPORT)

Vocabulary Journey
www.vocabjourney.com
VocabJourney's gaming format invites students to Learn, Play, and Master words. Students
set goals, earn achievements, and vie for a spot on the national leader board. The program
is perfect for skill building and extra practice. It also customizes each student's learning
experience with an adaptive engine allowing teachers to individualize instruction.
Additional Resources
Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR)
During 2004-2007, a team of teachers at FCRR collected ideas and created Student Center
Activities for use in kindergarten through fifth grade classrooms. Accompanying these
Student Center Activities is a Teacher Resource Guide and Professional Development DVD
that offers important insights on differentiated instruction and how to use the student center
materials.

Fountas and Pinnell Phonics Lessons (K-2)

Each book is a complete Phonics and Word Study Curriculum for each of the primary grades.
With 100 Minilessons for each of the three grade levels. You can use the month-by-month
planning guide, the assessment checklists, and the lesson selection map to choose the
lessons that align with your students' needs and the Word Study Continuum. The Continuum
encompasses nine scientific categories of learning:

Early Literacy Concepts

High-Frequency Words
Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
Spelling Patterns
Letter Knowledge
Word Structure
Letter/Sound Relationships
Word-Solving Actions
Word Meaning

Merrill Reading Skilltext Series

Merrill Reading Skilltext Series encourages average and below-average readers to
strengthen their skills while working independently. The Student Editions are designed with
carefully controlled readability to motivate students to work independently. This self-paced
series teaches comprehension, vocabulary development, phonics, and study skills.

Phonics Through Poetry

Carefully prepared lessons use the rhythm and rhyme of poetry to teach phonics. This
book's 115 read-aloud poems - some from well-known children's authors like Norma Farber,
Maurice Sendak, John Ciardi, and Jack Prelutsky, others written specially for this book -
immerse children in particular language sounds again and again, in word after word, within
an exciting context. Each poem comes with teaching apparatus comprising word lists using
the targeted sound, a "focusing talk" to cement and extend students' connection to the
poem, and an idea for a hands-on activity. Photocopy masters supply "letter cards" for
sounds the book targets.
Programmed Phonics
Programmed phonics is a word attack phonics program for upper elementary school
students who did not catch on to or did not have phonics in the early elementary years.

Reading A-Z
ReadingA-Z.com is well-known for its vast library of printable and projectable readers at 27
levels of difficulty. But the leveled readers are just the beginning! There are also books in
many genres and formats, fluency passages for timed reading, customizable worksheets,
poetry, reader's theater scripts, Spanish resources, and dozens of other classroom
resources and tools.

SRA Basic Reading Series

The SRA Basic Reading Series focuses on decoding for reading independence by teaching
the most common sound/spelling patterns gradually and developing comprehension skills.

Student Readers

Key sound elements introduced at each level (see Scope and Sequence)

Lively jingles and engaging stories