40 Reading Intervention Strategies for K-6 Students: Research-Based Support for RTI

This well-rounded collection of research-based reading intervention strategies will support and inform your RTI efforts. The book also includes teacher-friendly sample lesson plans and miniroutines that are easy to understand and adapt. Many of the strategies motivate average and above-average students as well as scaffold struggling readers. Maximise the power of these interventions by using them across year-level teams or schoolwide.

• Scaffold challenging comprehension skills like inferencing, summarising and monitoring.
• Teach inference with sample lessons using authentic text examples.
• Teach more vocabulary in less time with greater understanding and retention.
• Increase the vocabulary and background knowledge of ELLs and students with overall low vocabulary and language skills.
• Read historical and up-to-date research citations to inform and support your intervention decisions.
• Use the problem/solution table of contents to help you locate the precise strategy for a student’s problem.
• Discover more than 30 sample lessons with step-by-step instructions and teaching formats that include modelling, ways to build in student practice and suggestions for keeping students engaged.
• Learn routines to facilitate student practice of key reading skills.
• Adopt interventions to help students cross the fluency bridge from word identification to comprehension.
• Use the grade-level grid to help determine which strategies work best at specific year levels.