The Intermediate Level Intervention program is an informal supportive strategic intervention program. It is specifically designed to provide supplemental reading lessons to eligible students need additional focused instruction in reading comprehension.
Strategic intervention is intended to focus primarily on the instruction of key comprehension skills, vocabulary strategies, and reading fluency. The students use high-interest fictional and informational text to apply the skills and strategies in a meaningful way in a small group setting. The goal of strategic intervention is to provide explicit instruction and practice that will enable striving readers to be successful both in and out of the classroom.
Welcome!
I am a part-time reading specialist at Edison School. I received my degree in Education and Humanities from Villanova University and a Masters in Reading from Kean University. I enjoy working with small groups and individual students on critical reading strategies and skills.
Welcome!
I am a part-time reading specialist at Roosevelt Intermediate School. My role is to support students in order to enhance their critical thinking skills. I received my degree in Education from Pennsylvania State University and a Masters in Reading and Literacy Education from Fordham University.
Why Is Reading So Important? (National Institute for Literacy):
Despite the call for today’s adolescents to achieve higher levels of literacy than previous generations, approximately 8.7 million fourth through twelfth grade students struggle with the reading and writing tasks that are required of them in school [6]. For many adolescent students, ongoing difficulties with reading and writing figure prominently in the decision to drop out of school [7]. These indicators suggest that literacy instruction should continue beyond the elementary years and should be tailored to the more complex forms of literacy that are required of adolescent students in the middle and high school years. A growing research base on adolescent literacy supports an emphasis on direct instruction in the reading and writing skills needed to perform these more complex literacy tasks.
What Challenges Do Adolescent Readers Face with Text Comprehension?
Adolescents struggle with text comprehension for different reasons. Some adolescents simply lack sufficient fluency to achieve comprehension. Some fluent students lack comprehension strategies, such as generating questions, summarizing, and clarifying misunderstandings. Others have learned strategies only in the context of reading narrative texts, such as stories. Some students learn on their own how to transfer strategies used in one domain, such as literature, to other domains, such as history and science. Other students do not learn how to transfer these strategies on their own and are never taught how to apply them to the expository text found in science, history, math, and other content areas. Still other students have limited background knowledge in these domains.