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Intermediate School District 917

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Literacy Interventions

Literacy Interventions

Interventions are short term, evidence-based, supplemental curricula designed to help students who are behind meet reading benchmarks. Interventions must supplement, not supplant, core instruction. Interventions may be delivered in small groups or 1:1, depending on student and program needs. ISD 917 has adopted a bank of evidence-based interventions that can be used to meet our students wide ranging literacy needs.

ISD 917 Intervention Bank

Not all interventions have been adopted by all sites. Please see your reading specialist for more information

First Author

Skill Targeted: Writing

Who is it for?

Students with autism and other complex needs

Overview:

First Author™ is a comprehensive writing curriculum that guides educators to teach beginning writing skills to students with special needs including autism. It helps prepare students for the alternate assessment (including DLM, STAAR, and NCSC). But most importantly, you will help your students see themselves as authors who have the potential to share and communicate with others.

Logo featuring an open book above colorful text that reads 'UFLI'.​​​​​​​

Skills targeted:

Who is it for:  

Overview:

UFLI Foundations, an explicit and systematic program that teaches students the foundational skills necessary for proficient reading. It follows a carefully developed scope and sequence designed to ensure that students systematically acquire each skill needed and learn to apply each skill with automaticity and confidence. The program is designed to be used for core instruction in the primary grades or for intervention with struggling students in any grade. 

Links:  UFLI Google Folder

Literacy for AAC Users

Placement Test

Readtopia ReadtopiaGo

Skills Targeted:

Reading across the domains

Who is it for?

Students in late elementary, middle, and high school with autism and other complex needs

Overview:

Readtopia is a special education curriculum designed for teachers who work with late elementary, middle, and high school students with autism and other complex needs. It serves as an integrated comprehensive reading curriculum across several domains of study including ELA, Math, Social Studies, Life Skills, and Science.

Readtopia/ Readtopia Go Presentation

Sonday

Skills Targeted:

  • Phonemic Awareness

  • Phonics

Who is it for?

Beginning Readers

Overview:

Sonday System 1 offers structured, systematic, multisensory reading intervention for readers at the beginning stages of reading through the end of the 2nd-grade reading level. Each lesson plan uses proven Orton-Gillingham methods to provide effective intervention in small-group settings.

REWARDS

Skills Targeted:

  • Phonics

  • Fluency

Who is it for?

Student in Grades 6+ who can read at least 60 accurate words/minute

Overview:

REWARDS is offered at both the Intermediate and Secondary levels, and the focus of both is on decoding multisyllabic words, identifying and understanding prefixes and suffixes, increasing word and passage reading fluency, building academic vocabulary, and deepening comprehension along with building confidence.

Unique Learning Systems- Transition level only

Skills Targeted:

Phonemic Awareness

Phonics

Fluency

Vocabulary

Comprehension

Writing

Who is it for?

Preschool through transition

Overview:

With meaningful, age-respectful and developmentally appropriate lessons, Unique Learning System helps students develop a lifelong love of reading. Covering all the vital pillars of reading instruction—phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension—our complete reading program offers monthly ELA instruction, specific approaches and methods for unique learners and reading materials that are fine-tuned for each of the six grade bands, preschool through transition.

Visualizing and Verbalizing

Skills Targeted:

Vocabulary

Comprehension

Who is it for?

Students who read accurately but struggle with comprehension

Overview:

The Visualizing and Verbalizing® (V/V®) program develops concept imagery - the ability to create an imaged gestalt from language - as a basis for comprehension and higher order thinking. The development of concept imagery improves reading and listening comprehension, memory, oral vocabulary, critical thinking, and writing.