What is Phonemic Awareness?

• Refers to the skills of identifying, isolating, blending, segmenting, and manipulating (adding, substituting, deleting) phonemes (WI Act 20, Section 11, 2023). 

• Phonemic Awareness is under the umbrella of phonological awareness. 

Phonological Awareness? 

• Refers to the skills of word awareness, rhyme recognition, repetition and creation of alliteration, syllable counting or identification, onset, and rime manipulation (WI Act 20, Section 11, 2023). 

Selective Tier II Interventions

• Cut Up Sentences

• Ladders to Literacy

Intensive Tier III Interventions

• Early Literacy Foundational Skills (Tyner)

• Phonics Blast (RGR)

• PRESS Phonics

• Road to Code

• PRESS-Phonological Awareness

• Incremental Rehearsal

What is Phonics? 

• Refers to the “relationships between sounds and words; this includes alphabetic principle, decoding, orthographic knowledge, encoding, and fluency” (WI Act 20, Section 11, 2023). 

Selective Tier II Interventions

• REWARDS

• Rime Magic

• Sound Partners

• Phonics Blast (RGR)

• PRESS Phonics

• Words Their Way

• Elkonin Boxes

• Making Big Words

• All About Spelling

Intensive Tier III Interventions

• SIPPS Beginning/Extension

• Sonday 1

• Sonday 2

• Rime Magic

• Sound Partners

• Phonics Blast (RGR)

• PRESS Phonics

• ERE - Early Reading Empowerment*

• REWARDS

• UFLI

What is Fluency? 

• Reading fluency refers to reading with accuracy, automaticity, and prosody (WI DPI, 2020b, p.76). 

Selective Tier II Interventions

• REWARDS

• Six Minute Solution

• Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping

• Repeated Reading

• RMA - Retrospective Miscue Analysis

• Error Correction and Word Drilling Techniqu

• Incremental Rehearsal

Intensive Tier III Interventions

• REWARDS

• Read Naturally Live

• Repeated Reading

• SIPPS Plus & Extension

• Incremental Rehearsal

What is Vocabulary? 

• Refers to knowing words and word meanings, encompassing both expressive (words said or produced) and receptive vocabulary (words heard and understood) (Kosanovich, 2020, p. 1). 

Selective Tier II Interventions

• REWARDS

• Vocabulary Routine

Intensive Tier III Interventions

• SIPPS Challenge

• REWARDS

• Visualizing and Verbalizing

What is Comprehension? 

• Refers to the process of simultaneously extracting and constructing meaning through interaction and involvement with written language. Extracting meaning is to understand what an author has stated, explicitly or implicitly. Constructing meaning is to interpret what an author has said by bringing one’s “capacities, abilities, knowledge, and experiences” to bear on what he or she is reading (Shanahan and others, 2010). 

Selective Tier II Interventions

• Click or Clunk

• RMA - Retrospective Miscue Analysis

• Reciprocal Teaching

• Main-Ideas Map

• Activating Prior Knowledge

Intensive Tier III Interventions

• Read Naturally Live

• Visualizing and Verbalizing

• Leveled Literacy Intervention - Red/Gold (Grades 4 and up)

• Comprehension Focus Group

What is writing? 

• Refers to the” process through which people communicate thoughts and ideas… can include beginning scribbles, drawings, random letter strings, single-letter spellings, invented spelling, or complete sentences and paragraphs… also can include students dictating ideas to an adult or peer for transcription” (Graham et al., 2018, p.42). 

Selective Tier II Interventions

• Interactive Writing

• Expanding a Kernal Sentence

Intensive Tier III Interventions

• Writing Aloud