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Reading Skills	Description of Student Behavior	Here’s what classroom teachers can do for universal instruction...	Most Effective SRBI
MULTI-SKILLED INTERVENTIONS (must be done by individual trained in intervention)
Multi Student Needs	Student struggles in multiple skill areas.	Ensure student understands learning intentions at both the beginning and end of the lesson. Model and frequently check for understanding during a lesson. Provide guided instruction with scaffolds and feedback. Student applies new reading knowledge to parallel situations.	LLI Guided Reading Plus Reading Recovery Literacy Footprints Reciprocal Teaching Main Idea Maps
BASIC READING SKILLS: DECODING
Context Clues	Difficulty using context clues.	Before reading discuss pictures and unfamiliar concepts. During reading prompt students to use the pictures to help with meaning. After reading discuss the story.	Strategic Word Learning Mystery Word/Guess the Covered Word/Cross Checking Instruction
Cross-Checking	Difficulty with or inconsistent use of cross-checking during reading.	Prompt students to use the picture clues and the first letter of the word to figure out the unknown word.	Strategic Word Learning Word Attack Hierarchy Error Word Drill
Letter Recognition	Difficulty recognizing letters	Create name puzzles. Make names with magnetic letters. Rainbow-write. Match the letters in the bag. Match letters to an ABC chart. Match upper and lowercase letters. Sort letters by shape and color.	Trace an Alphabet Book Three Ways of Remembering (Letter Names)
Letter Sounds/Phonemic Awareness	Difficulty recognizing sounds in words Difficulty segmenting words into sounds Difficulty putting sounds together to create words	Complete picture sorts. Make words with magnetic letters. Complete sound boxes.	Elkonin Boxes[within a guided group] Sound Sorts [within a guided group] Trace an Alphabet Book
Sight Words	Lack of sight word knowledge	See “What’s Missing” in Guided Reading (p.90) Mix & Fix Table Writing Whiteboards	Basic Sight Word Instruction Explicit Sight Word Instruction [within a guided group] Copy, Cover, Compare At-A-Glance Words Say It and Move It Folding In
Rhyming	Difficulty with rhyme	Match pictures.	Reading by Analogy [within a guided group]
Word Patterns		Complete word study.	Making Words [within a guided group]