WCPSS Adolescent Literacy Resources for
Tier 2 Intervention in Middle and High School
Tier 2 intervention is targeted supplemental instruction that is designed and delivered by the classroom teacher.
Tier 2 intervention is required for students who are not making the expected level of progress in some part of the classroom
instruction. These students get specific instruction in areas where the student is falling behind or failing to “get it.”
Foundational
Skills
Word
Recognition
Fluency
Vocabulary
Reading
Instruction
Resources
Comprehension
Tier 2
Tier 3
Reading Components
Overview
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of the instructional resource.
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Academic
Workout
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Curriculum
Associates
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Academy of
Reading
2 3
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Teach a 30-minute reading lesson in four easy steps.
Helps to easily provide individualized, data-driven
instruction to students at all levels.
Covers the seven major strands of language arts in 60–90
lessons (depending on grade level).
Can be used with interactive whiteboards.
http://www.curriculumassociates.com/products/detail.asp?t
itle=AcadWorkout
Software-based resource designed to achieve permanent
gains in foundational skills of reading.
Designed to be used with small groups of students, ten or
fewer, with a teacher who coaches students as they
progress through the program.
Content is dynamically modified for students based on
pretest and progress.
Trains subskills to the level of automaticity.
Students who are significantly below in decoding will need
frequent direct instruction by the teacher in addition to
this program.
www.autoskill.com/products/reading/index.php
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WCPSS Adolescent Literacy Resources for
Tier 2 Intervention in Middle and High School
AMP Reading
System
2
Achieve
Maximum
Potential
Foundational
Skills
Word
Recognition
Fluency
Vocabulary
Reading
Instruction
Resources
Comprehension
Tier 2
Tier 3
Reading Components
Overview
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Teaches one reading strategy at a time, explicitly and
systematically, to ensure mastery.
Builds comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency.
Includes opportunities to read independently with student
novels that correspond to the unit topic.
http://www.pearsonschool.com
Contact C&I Middle School Language Arts
Corrective
Reading:
Decoding
2 3
X
X
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Provides intensive, sustained direct instruction to address
deficiencies in decoding and basic comprehension.
https://www.mheonline.com
Training: ESchools Course # SPED62101
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WCPSS Adolescent Literacy Resources for
Tier 2 Intervention in Middle and High School
Great Leaps
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2 3
2
2
Intervention
Curriculum:
Foundational
Skills
Word
Recognition
Fluency
Vocabulary
Reading
Instruction
Resources
Comprehension
Tier 2
Tier 3
Reading Components
Overview
Students work individually with an instructor and the
materials for less than ten minutes per day (three days per
week minimum).
It addresses phonics, sight phrases, and reading fluency.
http://www.greatleaps.com
Training: E-schools course # SPED62406
Department, cpearce@wcpss.net
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6th Grade: Slam Dunk
7th Grade: SOS
8th Grade: Dare to Dream
Reading
Intervention
Curriculum:
Read Up!
Created by WCPSS C&I.
Each course includes one semester of daily high-interest
lessons with cycles of repeated literacy strategies.
Designed for middle school students with minimal gaps in
their literacy skills.
Contact C&I Middle School Language Arts
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Created by WCPSS C&I
Read Up! delves into the thinking skills of Revised Bloom’s
Taxonomy and the reading components of fluency,
vocabulary, and comprehension. The curriculum is
presented in the form of a framework with lessons and
documents that are designed to guide teachers in tailoring
instruction to meet students’ needs.
Contact C&I Middle School Language Arts
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WCPSS Adolescent Literacy Resources for
Tier 2 Intervention in Middle and High School
Foundational
Skills
Overview
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Making
Connections
Intervention (MCI)
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2 3
Word
Recognition
Fluency
Vocabulary
Reading
Instruction
Resources
Comprehension
Tier 2
Tier 3
Reading Components
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Provides targeted literacy intervention for struggling
readers.
Explicit and direct comprehension instruction through
scaffolded lessons.
Students will learn to apply strategies to master
comprehension skills.
Woven through every lesson are multiple opportunities to
build students' vocabulary and fluency.
Utilized by Special Education students in Literacy
Essentials.
http://eps.schoolspecialty.com
Training: ESchools Course # SPED62419
Recipe for
Reading:
2 3
Intervention
Strategies for
Struggling
Readers
By Frances Bloom and Nina Traub.
Educators Publishing Service
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Orton-Gillingham based program, multisensory, explicit
and systematic.
Teaches letter-sound associations as well as syllabication.
Great for filling in word recognition gaps.
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Training: ESchools Course #: SPED621306
WCPSS Secondary Intervention  February 2011
WCPSS Adolescent Literacy Resources for
Tier 2 Intervention in Middle and High School
Foundational
Skills
Word
Recognition
Fluency
Vocabulary
Reading
Instruction
Resources
Comprehension
Tier 2
Tier 3
Reading Components
Overview
REWARDS:
2 3
Reading Excellence:
Word Attack and Rate
Development Strategies
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Research-validated, intensive intervention program to support
content area success for secondary students.
 Designed to teach strategies for reading long words (2 to 8
syllables)
 Increase oral and silent reading fluency
 Increase vocabulary
Sopris West: www.sopriswest.com
Training: ESchools Course # SPED62415
Sonday System
2 3
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X X X
Guides reading, writing and spelling intervention.
 Provides a lesson template for instructors to teach the
essential skills to students in every lesson, every day.
 The system is an Orton-Gillingham based, systematic,
explicit, sequential, and cumulative multisensory language
instruction program which cements student learning into
long-term memory.
http://www.winsorlearning.com
Training: ESchools Course # SPED62410
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WCPSS Adolescent Literacy Resources for
Tier 2 Intervention in Middle and High School
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Sounds
and
Letters
Overview
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by Jane Fell
Greene
Wilson Just Words®
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Foundational
Skills
Word
Recognition
Fluency
Vocabulary
Reading
Instruction
Resources
Comprehension
Tier 2
Tier 3
Reading Components
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Phoneme Awareness Drills for Teachers & SpeechLanguage Pathologists
Includes drill for multisensory learning.
Available at Amazon.com
Contact Special Education Literacy
Provides a curriculum for the study of word structure through
the six syllable types in English and the most common Latin
roots. It is a highly explicit, multisensory decoding and
spelling program for students who do not require intensive
intervention but do require explicit decoding and spelling
instruction due to word-level deficits.
http://www.justwords.com
Training: To be determined
Contact Literacy Department for information
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WCPSS Adolescent Literacy Resources for
Tier 2 Intervention in Middle and High School
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Wilson Reading
System®
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Foundational
Skills
Word
Recognition
Fluency
Vocabulary
Reading
Instruction
Resources
Comprehension
Tier 2
Tier 3
Reading Components
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Overview
Based on Orton-Gillingham principles, WRS is a highlystructured intensive intervention that directly teaches the
structure of the language to students who have been unable to
learn with other teaching strategies, or who may require
multisensory language instruction. It teaches total word
structure for decoding and encoding.
http://www.wilsonlanguage.com
Training: Year long practicum, by application only
Prerequisite is Wilson Applied Methods
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