Teacher Resources

Reading: Phonics/Alphabetics

• Word Boxes/Word Sort 

• Letter Cube Blending

Reading: Sight-Word Vocabulary

Sight-Word Vocabulary: The student has rapid recognition of sight words. 

• Reading Racetracks. The student engages in the repeated reading of a word list packaged in a 'racetrack' format.

  Reading Racetrack Interactive Form 

• Vocabulary: Class-wide Tutoring. Students are paired off to tutor each other in sight word vocabulary.

Reading Fluency

Fluency: The student reads with adequate fluency to comprehend the text. 

• Assisted Cloze: The tutor reads aloud while the student follows along silently in the practice passage. Then the student reads aloud. 

• Choral Reading The tutor (lead reader) reads aloud while the reading group or class all read aloud as well. 

• Duet Reading: The tutor and student alternate in reading aloud, with the tutor deciding how much text the student reads during their turn. 

• Echo Reading: Student and tutor alternate in reading short sections of the practice passage. 

• Listening Passage Preview: The student listens to the passage read aloud, then reads the passage aloud with tutor feedback. 

• Passage Preview in Sections: The tutor and student rehearse/read the passage in sections. 

• Paired Reading: The tutor and student read aloud together from a passage until the student signals that they would like to read alone. 

• Repeated Reading: The student reads a passage several times in succession with tutor feedback about accuracy and fluency. 

• Repeated Reading-Group: This version of repeated reading is delivered to a group of 3  students. 

•HELPS Fund: This free program provides 15-minute 1:1 tutoring sessions to work on reading fluency. NOTE: Teachers create a free account  on the HELPS site and then can access the free materials.

Reading Comprehension

Self-Monitoring: The student monitors understanding of the text while reading. 

• Click or Clunk: The student uses self-signals to monitor understanding at the sentence,  paragraph, and page level--and applies 'fix-up' skills. 

• Reading Reflection Pauses: The student monitors understanding periodically and applies fix-up skills

Main Idea: The student locates the main idea of a paragraph or passage in informational text.  

• Main Idea Maps: Use a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a passage. 

• Question Generation: Locate or create main-idea sentences for paragraphs in a passage and uses them to create study cards. 

• Read Ask Paraphrase: Locate the main idea and supporting details for each paragraph and summarizes them on a graphic organizer. 

• RAP Interactive Form 

• Read Actively: The student reads, covers, recalls from memory, and rereads each paragraph to boost comprehension. 

• Partner Retell: The student reads a passage, then pairs with another student to engage in a tutoring exchange to identify the main idea. 

• Repeated Reading with Oral/Written Retell: Read a passage several times and write or recite the key information from the passage.

Linking Ideas: The student makes connections between ideas in the text. 

• Linking Pronouns to Referents: When reading advanced texts, the student circles pronouns, writes their referents above them, and then rereads the text, inserting the referent for each pronoun. 

• Ask Read Tell: The student creates a reading plan and sets reading goals, monitors understanding while reading, and reflects on the reading once finished. 

• ART Interactive Form

• Phrase-Cued Text Lessons: The student reads aloud from annotated text and is coached to observe all pauses/phrase breaks, which correspond to groupings of ideas within the text. ONLINE APP: Phrase-Cued Text Generator

Spelling

Spelling Acquisition. The student can spell a grade-appropriate range of words correctly. 

• Cover Copy Compare: The student studies spelling-word (or sight-word) models, covers them, copies them from memory, and compares copied words to the originals. CCC Interactive Form 

• Self Correction with Verbal Cues: The student takes a brief spelling pre-test, follows a self-guided process to check and correct spelling errors using verbal cues, and then  takes a spelling post-test

Writing

Sentence Complexity. The student writes sentences of appropriate variety and complexity for the subject and/or grade level. 

•Writing Instruction Elements: The student receives writing instruction that contains some or all of these 9 'best writing practices'. 

•Sentence Combining: The student is given examples of 2 clauses to be combined into a single sentence.

Reading/Writing

• Assisting Students Struggling with Reading 

• Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd  Grade 

• Improving Reading Comprehension in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade 

• Improving Adolescent Literacy: Effective Classroom and Intervention Practices 

• Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School 

• Effective Literacy and English Language Instruction for English Learners in the Elementary Grades

• Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers 

• Teaching Secondary Students to Write Effectively

Florida Center for Reading Research: 

This website is a product of the Research Center at  Florida State University. The site includes free lesson plans for reading across grades K-5.  (Many of the 4th and 5th-grade resources are also appropriate for secondary students with reading delays.)

• Grades K-1 Student Center Activities 

• Grades 2-3 Student Center Activities 

• Grades 4-5 Student Center Activities

• Number Sense Intervention: Counting Board Game 

• Math Facts: Incremental Rehearsal (Constant Time Delay): Flash Cards 

• Math Facts: Self-Administered Folding-In (SAFI) Technique

• Math Facts (and Spelling) Intervention: Cover-Copy-Compare 

• Cover-Copy-Compare Interactive Worksheet: Horizontal Math Facts 

• Cover-Copy-Compare Interactive Worksheet: Vertical Math Facts 

• Work Completion: Problem-Interspersal Technique 

• STAR: Mnemonic for Completing Word Problems 

• Geometry: Tracing Problems to Enhance Understanding 

• Reciprocal Peer Tutoring in Math Computation With Constant Time Delay 

• Math Graphics: Question-Answer Relationships (QARs) 

• Math Vocabulary: Class-wide Vocabulary Tutoring 

• Self-Management: Customized Math Self-Correction Checklists 

• Math Anxiety: Managing Academic Anxiety Through an Antecedent Writing Activity

• Acquisition of Academic Item-Set - This high-success flashcard intervention can be used to teach letter and number names, sight words, spelling words, and vocabulary definitions: Flash Cards with Constant Time Delay. 

• Teaching Math to Young Children 

• Assisting Students Struggling with Mathematics 

• Improving Mathematical Problem-Solving in Grades 4 Through 8 

• Developing Effective Fractions Instruction for Kindergarten Through 8th Grade 

• Teaching Strategies for Improving Algebra Knowledge in Middle and High School Students 

• Encouraging Girls in Math and Science

Additional intervention resource sites for teachers: 

What Works Clearinghouse 'Practice Guides'. The What Works Clearinghouse is sponsored by the US Department of Education offering free resources that address reading, writing, and mathematics.

Evidence-Based Intervention Network. This site is co-sponsored by school psychology programs at East Carolina University and the University of Missouri. It contains research-based ideas for reading, math, and behavior interventions (Interventions).

Additional teacher resources and intervention strategies and learning structures: 

• Collaboration:  Numbered Heads Together

• Math Facts (and Spelling) Intervention: Cover-Copy-Compare 

• Supplemental Handout: Manual of Teacher: Interventions for Reading and Work Engagement

• Tier 1/Classroom Intervention Planning Sheet 

• Academic Interventions: Master Page

• Table: Academic Interventions

• Table: Methods of Classroom Data Collection

Helpful Tools:

• Video: How to Collect Data in the Classroom: Checklists 

• Online App: Self-Check Behavior Checklist Maker 

• Video: Academic Survival Skills Checklists 

• Online App: Academic Survival Skills Checklist Maker 

• Handout: Academic Survival Skills Checklists: 5 Ways to Help Students to Become  Effective Self-Managing Learners

• Form: Cumulative Mastery Record Form (Interactive)

• Video: How to Collect Data in the Classroom: Rubrics 

• Handout: How to Use Rubrics in Student Assessment 

• Worksheet Generator: SuperKids Math

• Rubric: Read and Retell

• Work Products: Moving from Artifact to Data Source