Week 4 Assignment #2 Structures of Reading Interventions

                                 
                                   Learning Task#2 Structure of Reading Interventions 
Anticipatory questions: 

1.  What do teachers do to help strengthen or enhance students’ reading strategies and skills?  
To help strengthen or enhance students’ reading strategies and skills the teacher needs to first of all; identify students’ strengths and weaknesses to pinpoint specific needs in reading, writing, vocabulary, and word knowledge, then the teacher needs to administer a reading assessment and finally the teacher needs to target teaching on phonemic awareness and/or phonics (depending on the students’ needs and grade level), fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension strategies.

2.  What are the available reading intervention programs? 
The available reading intervention programs that exist today are numerous; however, in Ann Duffey-Hester’s article; Teaching struggling readers in elementary classroom: A review in classroom reading programs and principles for instruction; she posits that there are six(6) main reading intervention programs which include:
Book Club Program(BCP)
Concept- Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI)
Fluency- Oriented Reading Instruction (FORI)
The Four Block Approach (FBA)
The Kamehameha Early Education Program (KEEP) Whole Literacy curriculum
Success For All (SFA)

3.  What can I do to implement my in-class intervention instruction? 
In order implement an intervention instruction in my classroom, I would identify a reading program that is provides multiple context for students to learn, flexible and diverse and well balanced with justifiable components and elements. Next, I would use student independent and instructional levels to provide daily read-alouds from a variety of genre and combine that with word identification, comprehension, vocabulary and writing task to get a baseline of where my students are. Then, I would use one of the reading assessments to document reading skills or strategies, which in turn will help me make a decision on the program that will best meet the needs of that student(s). Finally, I would reflect on the reading program I chose to make sure it is meeting the goals for the student success.

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