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Intervention Hub
Intervention Hub
Resources to help support your student's growth in reading, writing, and math.
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Reading
Support decoding skills taught at school.
Prioritize oral reading.
Make daily reading a habit.
Repeated readings.
Areas of Intervention:
Phonological & Phonemic Awareness
Phonological - larger chunks of sounds (rhyme, syllables, onset/rime)
Phonemic - individual sounds- segmenting, blending, and manipulating sounds
Phonics - decoding & encoding
Fluency - speed, accuracy, prosody
Comprehension - fiction vs. nonfiction, retelling & higher order thinking skills
Electronic Resources:
Practicing sound / grapheme correspondences
Sight word recognition and fluency practice
English language arts practice
Common Core Standards skill specific practice
Reading comprehension resources
Free eLibrary
Writing
Read with your child.
Encourage your child to write regularly.
Provide positive feedback on your child's writing.
Help your child with the writing process.
Create a supportive writing environment.
Model writing behaviors.
Celebrate your child's writing achievements.
Electronic Resources:
Storybird stands out as one of the best English writing apps for kids that inspires children to write their own stories using an array of stunning illustrations. It provides a platform for kids to become authors, encouraging them to construct narratives around professionally drawn artwork, which can then be digitally published into books.
Improve on the basics, learn new techniques, or explore a new style of writing with Storybird’s curriculum that includes over 700 guides, lessons, and challenges.
This awesome website is packed with printable materials that help young students get organized and enhance their writing skills. The Student Interactives section is a treasure trove of online writing tools designed to boost children’s literacy. Here are some of the standout features you’ll find:
Organizing and Summarizing: These tools help students break down information and structure their thoughts, making it easier to tackle writing assignments.
Writing and Publishing Prose: Kids can craft and publish their own stories, essays, and more, gaining confidence in their writing abilities.
Writing Poetry: Engaging tools that make poetry fun and accessible, encouraging creative expression through verse.
Learning about Language: Interactive activities that deepen understanding of language mechanics, vocabulary, and grammar.
In order to show your children how fun essays can be, you should show them great samples. At this website, you’ll find narrative, persuasive, expository, and descriptive essays appropriate for different ages. The samples are rather short, but they will give your kid an idea of how a paper is supposed to look. You’ll also find reading and writing activities and worksheets at the website.
Math
Areas of Intervention:
Number Sense Fluency
Number Naming
Counting
Grouping
Comparing
Quantity Total Fluency
Addition
Subtraction
Number Relationships (0+10, 9+1, etc.)
Concepts and Applications
Assess students’ progress in the basic skills of understanding mathematical concepts and vocabulary and applying that knowledge to solve mathematical problems
Place Value
Equations
Patterns
Estimating
Measuring
Geometry
Electronic Resources:
Printable activities by grade level focusing on:
Number Sense
Geometry
Measurement and Data
Free game-style app for building basic mathematical skills
Printable activities
Printable Flashcards
Instructional Videos
Parent Guide
Games
Virginia Department of Education
Online resources to support math at home
Title I
What it IS:
Student centered support
Targeted identification & instruction
Small group or one-on-one
Data driven
Partnership
Government funded/government monitored
Entrance:
Score below the 10th percentile on screening assessments
Follow-up diagnostic assessments demonstrate areas in need of intervention
Look at multiple data points, communicate with teachers for classroom performance
Exit:
Exceed the 10th percentile on screening assessments
Meet or project to exceed progress monitoring goals
Screening Assessments:
AimsWebPlus (kindergarten, first, second, and third grade)
Early Literacy (kindergarten)- phonemic awareness, print concepts, letter knowledge
Early literacy (1st grade)- word reading (WRF), passage reading (ORF)
Reading (2nd and 3rd grade)- vocabulary, reading comprehension, fluency (ORF)
MAP (4th grade +)
Comprehension
AimsWebPlus Oral Reading Fluency (follow-up)
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction - Title I
Percentile: This score ranks individuals within a group on a scale of 1-99 with 50 being average. A percentile rank of 75 means the student scored better than 75 percent of the other students in his or her norm group, and 25 percent scored as well or better than your student. It does not mean the student got 75% of the items correct. Percentile does not refer to the percent of questions that were answered correctly.
Progress monitoring: Weekly in targeted skill area towards goal outside of “at-risk” range.
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Act 20
Wisconsin Act 20 is a 2023 law that aims to help Wisconsin public school students, including those in independent charter schools, read proficiently by the end of third grade. The law requires schools to provide science-based early literacy instruction and interventions for all students in grades 5K–3, and to assess their early literacy skills. The law also requires schools to provide instruction in the following areas:
Phonological awareness
Phonemic awareness
Phonics
Building background knowledge
Oral language development
Vocabulary building
Writing instruction
Comprehension instruction
Reading fluency