Curriculum

Intervention

FOCUS

The focus of reading intervention is to provide evidence based, effective and targeted interventions and supports that match a student's specific area of academic need. Data is used to identify the area of need and to inform instruction and provide interventions that will support and sustain effective student learning and growth.

GOAL

Enable all students to be college and career ready.

SERVICE DELIVERY

Small group with differentiated instruction 20-30 minutes per session.

PROGRESS MONITORING

Student progress is monitored based on service level (once a week, once every two weeks, once a month) and adjustments are made as needed.

Foundational Skills

Ability to hear and manipulate individual phonemes. Phonological awareness includes this ability, but it also includes the ability to hear and manipulate larger units of sound, such as onsets and rimes and syllables

Encoding- Spelling

Oral Reading Fluency

Text Fluency

Ability to apply the most basic level of phonics knowledge - recognition and naming of letter names and sounds

Ability to apply knowledge of letter-sound relationships, including knowledge of letter patterns, to correctly pronounce written words.

Ability to use the relationship between spelling and pronunciation at the letter, syllable and word level to figure out unfamiliar words.

Ability to read aloud words with accuracy, proper phrasing and pacing.

Ability to read words quickly, accurately and monitor for meaning while reading.

Ability to understand the meaning of critical words in order to promote reading comprehension.

Ability to process text, understand its meaning, and to integrate with what the reader already knows.

Phonological Awareness

Phonological Awareness is the understanding of how language can be divided into its components. For example, we speak in sentences. Sentences can be broken down into words. Words are broken down into syllables. Onset rime is the breaking apart of a syllable. The onset of a word is all the sounds that come before a vowel and the rime is the vowel and all the sounds after. Rime is specific to the word spelling pattern and sound. Phonological Awareness also includes the ability to recognize and generate rhyming words (that sound the same and may or may not have the same spelling pattern).

Phonemic Awareness is a sub skill of the broad category of phonological awareness. Phonemes are the smallest parts of sound in a spoken word. The English language has 44 unique sounds. The 44 English sounds fall into two categories: consonants and vowels. Various letters and letter combinations known as graphemes are used to represent the sounds.

Two factors have been found to predict early reading success: Phonemic Awareness and Knowledge of letters. Both Letterland Intervention (Grades K-2) and Recipe for Reading Intervention (Grades 3-5) provide systematic and explicit instruction in letter knowledge and phonemic awareness utilizing the Orton-Gillingham reading technique.