LEVELED LITERACY INTERVENTION
When students begin to attend reading intervention classes, most student groups will engage in literacy lessons from a researched-based reading program called Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) developed by Fountas and Pinnell.
LLI lessons offer both fiction and non-fiction texts for students to read. They are leveled by letters that correspond to a reading grade level and the reading behaviors a student at that grade should be able to demonstrate in the areas of fluency, accuracy, and comprehension.
Lessons include instruction building word study skills (study of phonemes (sounds), study of meaning of Latin/Greek stems, and decoding multi-syllabic words), fluency practice, and how to successfully create summaries of text.
The teacher every other lesson will have one student read the previous days text to code for accuracy, fluency and comprehension. This quick assessment is called a reading running record. The teacher then discusses strengths the reader demonstrated and will also set goals to improve one area in reading.
RESEARCHED BASED READING STRATEGIES
Some students may need a second option to close the reading gap and then Researched Based Reading strategies may be implemented during class. This option also includes fiction and non-fiction text. There are multiple readings of the text and will continue to read to improve accuracy, fluency and comprehension.
SIX MINUTE SOLUTION
If fluency is a challenge for a student the teacher may select Six Minute Solution. This intervention has a student read a passage for one minute. The goal is that over a course of 5 days the number of words read correctly increases daily.
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