IN-CLASS INSTRUCTIONAL INTERVENTION

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Instructional focus based on the assessment results

Length of Intervention (How many weeks? Daily lessons? How long is the lesson while maintaining the rest of your class?)

Intervention structure (intervention components, such as repeated reading, decoding, encoding, expository structure and details, writing…)

Create one sample mini-lesson that addresses Mary’s areas of need.

Instructional focus based on the assessment results

Since Mary is an ELL learner in the 4th grade, she would most likely benefit from phonics instruction which would help her read words with blends. For this assessment we would focus on “br” and “ea” blends. We would gradually move onto other blends as needed.

She omitted the “s” and “t” sounds at the ends of two words. She may need additional instruction on reading beginning and ending sounds.

Mary re-read some parts of the selection, which implies that she needs to work on fluency, however she did recognize when she made mistakes and paused to attempt to correct them.

Length of Intervention (How many weeks? Daily lessons? How long is the lesson while maintaining the rest of your class?)

I would have Mary’s interventions take place over the course of the remainder of the quarter. Each session would be 10/15 minutes in duration, four consecutive days a week.

In addition I would work with the RTI team to make provisions for her to continue to work on those areas she needs help in over the summer break (i.e.summer school). Ideally, her plan would include provisions for her return the following school year, to be assessed, her progress checked and her plan updated.

Intervention Structure (intervention components, such as repeated reading, decoding, encoding, expository structure and details, writing…)

The interventions would include…

Worksheets with matching pictures with words that have “br” and “ea” blends.

Reading a familiar rhyme/poetry and reading with a partner to help with fluency.

Introduce her to commonly used suffixes and then work with her to compile a list of words that end with “s” and “t” sounds.

I would also incorporate the use of Ipad based phonics software program by Emmy Chen, entitled “Phonics Silly Sentences 2 Free “This app provides fun activities that introduce vowel sounds and their letter combinations.

Sample Mini-Lesson

Tongue Tied

Objectives:

• Students will learn to recognize sets of words that begin with the same sound in songs, speech, and poetry.

• Students will indicate beginning sounds recognition by responding with a physical movement.

The Idea:

By providing students the opportunity to practice recognizing the beginning sounds in words through alliteration and tongue twister activities they can effectively strengthen skills. This exercise incorporates music and play activities in which students listen, practice, discover, and create words and phrases with repeated beginning sounds. Each time words with the same beginning sounds are played, students respond with a gesture and or write them down in a list. The characters in the songs or rhymes are familiar to students and makes learning fun and easier to remember.

Materials:

Internet Access or Nursery Rhyme CD

Picture Book/Cards/Objects whose names begin with letter sounds

Procedure:

1. Have the student try to think of words that start with the same sound and ask them what “sound” do they start with?

2. Next, have them listen to a nursery rhyme or funny song that has words with the same beginning letter sounds. (you will need to have the lyrics to these songs printed already) Instruct them to wave their hands in the air when they hear two words with the same beginning letter sounds.

3. Then have the student listen to the song again and this time write down as may same beginning letter sounds as they can within a specified time period.

4. Afterwards, have them review the word list and say them aloud with you.

5. Give the student the picture book and work with them to identify and match a few of the items on their list with its picture. Let them complete the rest on their own.

6. Go over the matching with them allowing them to explain their procedure to you.

7. To check progress, now give them a bag of pictures with images of things whose names begin with the same letter sounds and have them try to match them.

Follow-up: Have students come up with a short poem or tongue twister using

their word list.

Have them share their creation out loud with you. The goal is to have them be able to say all the words on the list correctly and match them to other words with the same beginning sounds.

Keep a portfolio with the students work to track development.