Interventions for Reading Success
By Diane Haager, Ph.D., Joseph A. Dimino, Ph.D., & Michelle P. Windmueller, Ph.D.

With an extensive menu of lessons that take just 20–30 minutes, this intervention guide is the key to helping students grasp the five Big Ideas of early literacy: phonological awareness, the alphabetic principle, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. General and special educators will get

• easy-to-implement, one-page activities and interventions, including goals, materials, word lists, and teacher steps
  
  
• photocopiable take-home activities for parents to help them reinforce their children’s reading skills
  
  
• reading intervention guidelines for any educator, whether they’re teaching 1) an entire class, 2) small groups, or 3) individual students who need more intensive support
  
  
• guidance on assessment and intervention planning, using DIBELS and other literacy assessment tools
  
  
• activities addressing vocabulary and language development for students who are learning English as a second language or have language delays
  
  
• practical tips from real teachers for implementing intervention in the classroom
  
  
• research on how this classroom-based intervention can improve students’ skills and help them catch up with their peers

All activities come complete with clear guidelines and suggestions and are easy to tailor to students’ individual needs. Creative and versatile, this curriculum supplement will help struggling students become skillful, enthusiastic readers.

1. Introduction to Reading Intervention
   
2. Providing Classroom-Based Reading Intervention
   
3. Using Assessment to Guide Intervention
   
4. How to Use the Activities in This Book: The Nuts and Bolts of Implementing Intervention
   
   

II: Classroom Activities

5. Phonological Awareness
   FOCUS ON: Rhyming
   FOCUS ON: Onset-Rime and Phonemic Awareness
   FOCUS ON: Segmenting and Blending
   
   
6. Alphabetic Principle
   FOCUS ON: Letter-Sound Correspondence
   FOCUS ON: Adding Sounds
   FOCUS ON: Deleting Sounds
   FOCUS ON: Substituting Sounds
   FOCUS ON: Long Vowel Spelling Patterns
   FOCUS ON: Variant Vowel Spelling Patterns
   
   
7. Fluency Development
   
   
8. Integrating Vocabulary Development and Comprehension Instruction into Intervention

III: Home-School Connection Activities

BIG IDEA: Phonological Awareness
FOCUS ON: Rhyming
FOCUS ON: Onset-Rime and Phonemic Awareness
FOCUS ON: Segmenting and Blending

BIG IDEA: Alphabetic Principle
FOCUS ON: Letter-Sound Correspondence
FOCUS ON: Adding Sounds
FOCUS ON: Deleting Sounds
FOCUS ON: Substituting Sounds
FOCUS ON: Long Vowel Spelling Patterns
FOCUS ON: Variant Vowel Spelling Patterns

BIG IDEA: Fluency

References
Appendix: Photocopiable Templates
Index