Intervention Selection Tools

How to use this page: Consider the selections below before browsing available resources. Resources are presented in the outlined sequence.

Cross-curricular resources

ActivelyLearn – 3rd-12th grade texts (and videos!) for ELA, Science, and Social Studies with scaffolds and higher-order questions.

Boom Cards - Boom Cards are interactive lessons created by teachers. (Check with your SSD administrator about a paid license.)

Chrome Extensions for struggling students and special needs – blog post that outlines 30 chrome extensions and how they might work in your classroom. 

Diffit - generates and/or adjusts content to "just right" instructional materials & resources

Discovery Ed Streaming - 200,000 rich content resources that spans all grades and subjects (Check with your SSD administrator about a paid license.)

eSpark Learning - With standards-based games, videos, and digital activities, K-5th grade students can work independently to succeed at their own level and pace.

EVERFI – interactive, game-based digital lessons on career exploration, social and emotional learning, diversity and inclusion, and more

Flocabulary - Flocabulary is a library of songs, videos, and activities for K-12 online learning. (Every SSD teacher has access to a district-provided subscription.)

Goalbook UDL strategies - Downloadable strategies & tools in the areas of engagement, representation, and expression.

Graphic Organizer Templates from HMH - Free, printable graphic organizers for variety of categories, including written expression planning, compare/contrast, KWL, goal-reasons, problem-solution

HippoCampus - Thousands of free videos in 13 subject areas (mostly math and science) pulled from reputable resources. 

Immersive Reader is a Microsoft alternative to Read&Write listed above – read this article for more info.

Intervention Central - Free research-based interventions & strategies in the areas of academics & behavior.

IXL - IXL is a personalized learning platform that is proven to improve learning outcomes for all students. With more than 8,000 skills covering math, English language arts, science, social studies, and Spanish. (Check with your SSD administrator about a paid license.)

Learning for Justice - Free resource for educators emphasizing social justice and anti-bias. Classroom resources include lesson plans, film kits, etc. 

QSSSA : more than turn and talk - QSSSA is a method for structuring conversations that can be used in any grade level or content area. Any teacher can use QSSSA to engage students in academic conversations.

Read&Write - The Read&Write easy-to-use toolbar makes documents, files and web pages more accessible. 

Retrieval Practice - Strategies, downloads, and resources to help your students retain their learning.

Splash Learn - Kids see fun games. You see real learning outcomes. Watch your kids fall in love with math & reading through this scientifically designed curriculum for grades K-5.

SSD Assistive Technology - This SSD google site offers a variety of tools for students in pre-K to high school.

Question Well  - generates questions, learning objectives & more from teacher-selected text

ULS (News to You) - Unique Learning System is designed specifically to help students with special learning needs master their state’s extended standards. (Check with your SSD administrator about a paid license.)

Understood.org resource finder - This interactive resource finder allows you to select specific skills within the domains of behavior, learning, and everyday skills and suggests evidence-based resources. 

Teacher Tools

Along.org  - digital reflection tool with alternate methods of response

Classroom Screen - a free and simple tool with helpful digiboard widgets for the classroom screen

Creatability - collection of tools designed to make arts more accessible to users with disabilities

CTRL-F - digital media literacy with activities & lessons

EquatIO - EquatIO lets everyone create mathematical equations, formulas, Desmos graphs, and more on their computer or Chromebook.

Flippity - "Easily turn a Google Spreadsheet into a set of online flashcards & other cool stuff".

Lino - online sticky notes - can use as a virtual bulletin board that students can contribute to!

Openverse – extensive library of free stock photos, images, and audio

Pear Deck - “With the Pear Deck for Google Slides Add-on, you can add the magic of formative assessments and interactive questions to your presentations right from Google Slides.”

Photos for Class - Creative commons photos that automatically include attribution.

PikWizard –  over 1 million stock free images and videos

Project Core - provide access to flexible vocabulary, AAC, and evidence-based instruction for communication 

Sketchnoting - "Sketchnoting, in its purest form, is creating a personal visual story as one is listening to a speaker or reading a text." Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything has TONS of resources on the topic.

SlidesMania -  free creative PowerPoint templates & Google Slides themes

Starting Your Podcast -  guide for students creating & publishing podcasts (contest element optional)

TalkingPoints -  free app that allows teachers & parents to message each other in their preferred language

The Stall - monthly  professional learning newsletter with tools & resources from Angela Cartee

Wallet Card Project – customized wallet cards that are free communication tools for teenagers and adults with specific disabilities

Literacy

Academic Word Finder  - Find the high-value, tier two vocabulary in any text (grades K-12)

Beyond Flashcards - Activities for explicit vocabulary instruction in the secondary classroom. (Content from Council for Exceptional Children convention, 2021)

Boddle - Gamified learning, ELA and math content aligned with learning standards (intended grades K-6)

CommonLit - Free fiction & nonfiction reading passages for grades 5-12.

Common Lit 360 Curriculum - Comprehensive full-year units for grades 6 - 10 including ready to use materials and digital instruction options. 

Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR)

• Student Center Activities are activities for students in grades K-5 in the big 5 areas of literacy.

• The Teacher Resource Guide includes literacy instructional routines for small group instruction as well as other helpful strategies.

Learning A-Z - Leveled reading resources to easily differentiate instruction. (Check with your SSD administrator about a paid license.)

Lexipedia - online visual semantic network (alternate to traditional dictionary/thesaurus)

Make Beliefs Comix - Encourage & develop students’ writing skills using a comic strip format!

MyLanguages -  resources such as lessons, grammar tips, vocabulary, etc. in over 90 languages

Newsela -  Leveled content from premier daily new sources with embedded assessments.

NoRedInk- NoRedInk builds stronger writers through interest-based curriculum, adaptive exercises, and actionable data.

Open Source Phonics - Comprehensive and free set of materials supporting phonics instruction

• 120 Lessons sequential from letters/sounds to words and word parts

• Decodable Stories

Prodigy English - Gamified learning, now with an English component aligned with Common Core standards (grades 1-6)

Quill - Quill provides free writing and grammar activities for elementary, middle, and high school students.

Reading Universe -  ready to use teaching strategies, in-classroom videos & quick, concrete answers to common ELA questions.

Readworks & Digital Readworks - Large library of non-fiction & literary articles, with reading comprehension & vocab lessons & assessments.

• Readworks Article-A-Day

• Readworks Step Reads 

Read Write Think - Provides hundreds of K-12 standards-based ELA lesson plans, printable sheets from assessments to organizers, and online student interactive tools (from the National Council of Teachers of English).

Sherlock Center - Adapted Literature & Lessons - Library of adapted literature, including literature for visual impairment, books simply-stated with picture symbols,  extended literacy guides, and interactive options

Unite for Literacy - free digital library, loaded with 500+ culturally relevant books and narrated in over 50 languages (approximately K-2 level texts)

1000 Black Girl Books Database -  database of over 13,000 books featuring Black female protagonists

Math

Boddle - Gamified learning, math and ELA content aligned with learning standards (intended grades K-6)

Get the Math - "Get the Math is about algebra in the real world. See how professionals use math in music, fashion, videogames, restaurants, basketball, and special effects. Then take on interactive challenges related to those careers." 

Illuminations - NCTM - Math resources such as lesson plans, web interactives, and mobile apps from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

Inside Problem Solving - The Inside Problem Solving problems are non-routine math problems designed to promote problem-solving in your classroom (pre-K to high school).

Legends of Learning – Math & science activities and games for grades 3-8

Math is Fun -Illustrated Math Dictionary - Math is Fun is a dictionary of math terms with visual explanations of the concepts behind them. The tool is appropriate for students of all ages. 

NCTM Classroom Resources - A collection of resources from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, including problems of the week and reasoning & sense making task library. 

Prodigy Math - Gamified learning, math content aligned with Missouri Learning Standards (grades 1-8)

Skew The Script – free, relevant math lessons (secondary)

Study Jams - Supplemental math & science lessons (K-5) feature resources such as educational cartoon shorts, quizzes to test comprehension, informative slideshows, and original songs. 

The Power of One Good Math Question (elem)  

Zearn Math - Innovative combo of live instruction and adaptive online math lessons, grades K-7.

7 Evidence-Based Mathematics Strategies - Explicit Instruction, Multiple Representations, Math Language, Word-Problem Instruction, Mnemonics, Graphic Organizers, and Fluency Building Activities

9 Math Intervention Strategies for Struggling Students - Nine research-based math interventions to support students at any level.

Science/Social Studies

aiEDU – free curriculum that builds foundational AI literacy

BioDigital -  interactive 3D experiences of over 5,000 anatomical parts and animations from any angle

DataUSA - Visualizations of public census data.

Digital Public Library of America - “Primary literary, historical and cultural sources for students ages 6-14 curated from archives across the USA. Students can browse letters, photographs, printable posters and sheet music, among other documents. The Library has also created teaching guides with discussion questions and classroom activities.” (EdSurge S’Cool Tool review) 

Google Arts & Culture - “Explore collections from around the world” & curate your own collections! 

iCivics - Video games that offers teachers and students the opportunity to play with civic skills and knowledge, playable in one class period & detailed report at end for grading.

MediaSmarts - Parent and teacher resources, including lesson plans tailored to media literacy for various age groups, including accessible options for diverse learners

National Geographic Education Resource Library – Thousands of activities, articles, photographs, and more in the areas of science and social studies

NewseumED - Browse 1,000s of Lesson Plans, Digital Artifacts, Videos, Historical Events, Interactives and Other EDTools.

Practical Money Skills - Free financial lesson plans for PK to college, aligned with various state standards

Smithsonian Learning Lab - “Discover more than a million resources, create personal collections and educational experiences, and share your work.” 

Study Jams - Supplemental math & science lessons (K-5) feature resources such as educational cartoon shorts, quizzes to test comprehension, informative slideshows, and original songs. 

USA News Map - Search over eleven million newspaper pages between 1789 and 1964.

What’s going on in this graph? - NY Times - Graphs, maps and charts from The Times -- and an invitation to students to discuss them (Alice Keeler blog – methods for getting your students to engage with the NY Times graphs)

Wonderopolis - "Each day, we pose an intriguing question—the Wonder of the Day®—and explore it in a variety of ways." 

Social Emotional/Behavioral Resources

Attendance Works Resources - Attendance Works suggests five basic steps to address and reduce chronic absence in schools. We've developed resources to help implement each strategy.

Be Good People - Social skills lessons, extension activities, and community building activities. Includes tools such as the mood meter.

Closegap - By combining early & crisis intervention, real-time support, and a safe, digital space for emotional discovery, Closegap makes it easy for K-12 schools to support the emotional health of their students.

Everyday Speech - Everyday Speech is a social emotional learning platform offering video modeled SEL curricula, interactive worksheets, and more.  (Check with your SSD administrator about a paid license.)

Habitica - A free habit building and productivity app that treats your real life like a game (can also be accessed on computer, don't have to have a device). Their tag line is: Motivate yourself to do anything.

Kansas Technical Assistance System Network (TASN) - Autism and Tertiary Behavior Supports Project

Motivation resources from Intervention Central - a collection of articles with specific tips to implement to increase motivation, based on 6 functions of behavior:

1: The Student Cannot Do the Work

2: The Response Effort to Do the Work Seems Too Great

3: Classroom Instruction Does Not Engage

4: The Student Does Not See an Adequate Payoff for Doing the Work

5: The Student Lacks Confidence that He or She Can Do the Work

6: The Student Lacks a Positive Relationship with the Teacher

National Professional Development Center on Autism Spectrum Disorder – wonderful training resources to help develop skills to implement evidence-based strategies to help students 

Overcoming Obstacles -free, research-based, and award-winning K-12 life skills curricula that provides educators with hundreds of lessons to teach elementary, middle, and high school students the skills necessary for success.

PBIS World - “PBIS World is a website containing links to hundreds of interventions, supports, resources, and data collection tools, all of which are organized into the tier 1 through 3 framework.” (PBIS World FAQs)

SEB Tools for Youth and Teens and SEB Tools for Younger Children - Our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are all connected. What we think can affect how we feel and act. And what we do can affect how we think and feel. Changing one can help change the others. Explore videos and downloadable resources to support students with SEB.

Self-Monitoring resource guide from Intervention Central - Step-by-step guide for implementing a self-monitoring plan (student measures and evaluates their own behavior). Includes sample behavior checklist, rating scale, frequency count.

Social Thinking Strategies - Resources from our SSD SEB EPS team with videos and downloads to implement social mapping, contingency mapping, and social mapping plan of change. 

Why Try - A program that teaches critical social and emotional life skills. We help students answer the question… why try? Why should I put effort into life, school, or work? (Check with your SSD administrator about a paid license.) 

5 Social-Emotional Learning Activities for High School - Fist to Five (Self-Management), Different Perspectives in Literature (Social Awareness), Social Contract (Relationship Skills), Meaningful Online Messages (Relationship Skills), and Responsible Citizens (Responsible Decision Making)

60-Second Strategy: Daily Intention - By making small goal setting part of the everyday routine, teachers help students build the skills they need to achieve larger and longer-term objectives.