MLSS Intervention Resources

Form A: Classroom Interventions and Supports (Layer 3 Referral)

Forms B/C: Intervention Progress Monitoring (Layer 4 - EST - or Layer 5 - Evaluation Referral) will reside in Educlimber from now on.

Make a copy of the EST checklist and the EST Plan template for each referral.

• EST checklist

• EST Plan template

DRAFT Form D: Placement Progress Monitoring (Layer 6 Referral)

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• Checklist for Getting Started with an Intervention (under construction for Fall 2025)

• Common Expectations for Interventions:

  • WCUUSD MLSS Description and Prioritization Guidance

  • Middle School Academic Support Overview 2025-2026

  • High School Academic Support Overview 2025-2026

• Evidence-Based Practices:

  • Explicit Instruction Checklists and Intervention and Service "Look Fors" Observation Tool

  • Literacy:

    • NCII Reading Sample Lessons

    • Assisting Elementary Students Struggling with Reading

    • Intensifying Literacy Intervention - Effective Practices

    • Providing Reading Interventions for Students in Grades 4-9

    • Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers

    • Teaching Secondary Students to Write Effectively

  • Math:

    • NCII Sample Math Lessons

    • Assisting Students Who Struggle with Mathematics: Intervention in the Elementary Grades

    • Assisting Students Who Struggle with Mathematics: Response to Intervention in the Upper Elementary and Middle Grades

    • Principles for Designing Intervention in Mathematics

  • Functional Skills:

    • Teacher-Delivered Behavioral Interventions in Grades K-5

    • Preventing Dropout in Secondary Schools

• Programs:

  • i-Ready Personalized Instruction and Tools for Instruction for Math and Reading (evidence-based and available through Clever)

  • Delta Math (research-based)

  • Bridges Mathematics Intervention Program (research-based)

  • Functional Skills Curriculum Resources

• District Interventions:

  • Reading Interventions

  • Writing Interventions

  • Math Interventions

  • Functional Skills Interventions

• Progress Monitoring Assessments:

  • Math Probes

  • Reading Probes

  • Written Expression (& Spelling) Probes

  • Functional Skills Probes

• Diagnostic Assessments:

  • • Math:

      • Primary Number & Operations Assessment (PNOA)

• Assessing Fidelity:

  • How well we we able to follow the plan? - Five Elements of Fidelity (from NCII)

• Intensification:

  • • Intensification Strategy Checklist (from NCII)

• End of Intervention Checklist (This is being updated for Fall of 2025.)