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Basic Reading Skill
Title
Type
Time
Grade
Location of
Resources
Click or Clunk
Materials 1
Instr.
Method
20-30
min, 45x/week,
8 weeks
1-8
N/A
In this intervention, students periodically check their
understanding of sentences, paragraphs, and pages of text
as they read. When they encounter problems with
vocabulary or comprehension, they use a checklist to apply
simple strategies to solve those reading difficulties.
Story Detective
Materials 1
Instr.
Method
20-30
min, 45x/week,
8 weeks
2-8
N/A
This intervention allows students to practice reading
comprehension strategies without the added pressures of
decoding
Story Mapping
Materials 1
Instr.
Method
20-30
min, 45x/week,
8 weeks
1-8
N/A
This intervention is delivered in 3 phases that are designed
to increase students’ independent use of story mapping
over time
Text Lookback
Instr.
Method
20-30
min, 45x/week,
8 weeks
1-8
N/A
In this intervention, students are taught to use “Lookback”
and “Think” questions to help them remember and
understand what they read
Reciprocal
Teaching
Instr.
Method
20-30
min, 45x/week,
8 weeks
1-8
N/A
This intervention teaches students to use reading
comprehension strategies independently, including text
prediction, summarization, question generation, and
clarification of unknown or unclear content
Instr.
Method
20-30
min, 45x/week,
8 weeks
1-8
N/A
Through a series of guided questions, the instructor helps
students activate their prior knowledge of a specific topic to
help them comprehend the content of a story or article on
the same topic. Linking new facts to prior knowledge
increases a student’s inferential comprehension
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Materials 1
Materials 2
Prior Knowledge:
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SLD Area
Basic Reading Skill
Title
Type
Time
Grade
Location of
Resources
Phrase-Cued
Text Lesson
Instr.
Method
20-30
min, 45x/week,
8 weeks
1-8
N/A
Phrase-cues texts are a means to train students to recognize
the natural pauses that occur between phrases in their
reading. Because phrases are units that often encapsulate
key ideas, the student’s ability to identify them can enhance
comprehension of text
Neurological
Impress Method
Instr.
Method
20-30
min, 45x/week,
8 weeks
K-8
N/A
Mental Imagery:
Improving Text
Recall
Instr.
Method
20-30
min, 45x/week,
8 weeks
1-8
N/A
The Neurological Impress Method is a form of paired
reading in which a student and tutor read the same text
almost simultaneously. Sitting side-by-side, the tutor reads
a text slightly faster and louder than the student while both
follow the text with their fingers. Reading along with a more
fluent reader is thought of as "an impress, an etching in of
word memories on the natural process" (Heckelman, 1969).
In addition, positive reinforcement from the tutor may help
build students' self-confidence and enjoyment of reading.
By constructing “mental pictures” of what they are reading
and closely studying text illustrations, students increase
their reading comprehension
Keywords: A
Memorization
Strategy
Materials 1
Instr.
Method
20-30
min, 45x/week,
8 weeks
2-8
N/A
In this mnemonic technique, students select the central idea
of a passage and summarize it as a ‘keyword.’ Next, the
recode the keyword as a mental picture and use additional
mental imagery to relate other important facts to the
keyword. Then can then recall the keyword when needed,
retrieving the related information
Accuracy
Intervention:
Pencil Tap
Instr.
Method
20-30
min, 45x/week,
8 weeks
1-8
N/A
This intervention is designed to increase self-monitoring and
self-correction of errors in reading among students who read
with low accuracy
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Title
Type
Time
Grade
Location of
Resources
Description
DISSECT: The
Word
Identification
Strategy
Materials 1
Instr.
Method
20-30
min, 45x/week,
8 weeks
5-8
Additional
Materials at
Riverview- See
Diane Rosenbeck
This intervention teaches students specific strategies to
identify unknown words
Graphosyllabic
Analysis: 5 Steps
to Decoding
Complex Words
Instr.
Method
20-30
min, 45x/week,
8 weeks
2-8
N/A
In this intervention students learn a strategy for analyzing
words into their constituent parts as they practice reading a set
of multisyllabic words over several trials
Incremental
Rehearsal
Instr.
Method
20-30
min, 45x/week,
8 weeks
K-8
N/A
In this intervention, a student is presented with flashcards
containing unknown words mixed in with known words,
allowing for high rates of success
Repeated
Reading
Instr.
Method
20-30
min, 45x/week,
8 weeks
K-8
N/A
In this intervention, the student reads through a passage
repeatedly, silently or aloud, and receives help with reading
errors
Word Building
Instr.
Method
20-30
min, 45x/week,
8 weeks
K-8
N/A
This intervention assists students in fully decoding words by
systematically directing their attention to each grapheme
position within a word
Prosody
Intervention
Instr.
Method
20-30
min, 45x/week,
8 weeks
1-8
N/A
This intervention is for students who read through periods or
don’t pause at commas and have poor phrasing.
Reading Fluency
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SLD Area
Basic Reading Skill
Title
Type
Time
Leveled Literacy
Intervention LLI
Instr.
Program
K-8
Elementary &
Riverview
The Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention
System (LLI) is a small-group, supplementary
intervention designed for children who find reading and
writing difficult. LLI is designed to bring children quickly
up to grade-level competency—in 14 to 18 weeks on
average.
SOAR to Success
Instr.
Program
30-45
min, 45x/week,
2+ weeks
per level
behind
30-40min,
5x/week,
20+ weeks
3-8
Horizon
Soar to Success is a research-based reading
intervention program for students in grades 3-8 who
are reading significantly below grade level. It is a
small-group model that uses motivating literature,
reciprocal teaching, and graphic organizers in fastpaced lessons to help students in grades 3-8
accelerate their reading growth.
Words Their Way
Instr.
Program
20-30
min, 45x/week,
16+ weeks
2-8
Elementary (3rd
Grade Teachers)
Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics,
Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction, Third
Edition, a phenomenon in word study, provides
a practical way to study words with students.
Based on the research on invented and
developmental spelling, the framework of this
text is keyed to the five stages of spelling or
orthographic development. Ordered in this
developmental format, Words Their Way
complements the use of any existing phonics,
spelling, and vocabulary curricula.
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