Intervention Tool Chart :: Reading

Looking for an intervention for your students?  The Intervention Tools Chart is designed to be used by educators as a resource to locate interventions, instructional practices, and learning strategies that can be used within an RtI process.  Please note:  the listing of specific tools is not meant as an endorsement by the NYS RtI MS DP or the NYSED.  Rather, it is up to the consumer to research selected tools for evidence of effectiveness.  The chart contains three types of tools that are either free or available for purchase:  commercial programs, instructional practices, and learning strategies.

Title
Component
Tier
Grade

PhonicsQ

Commercial Program
Phonics & Decoding
Tier I,II,III
K—12th

PhonicsQ is visual system of picture cues in three different formats. It is designed to help students link the phonemes of oral language and the graphemes of written language to decode, encode and pronounce new words. This system provides a single picture as a cueing device for a particular sound (i.e. oo, ow). The PhonicsQ system can be used to supplement/support any reading programs and approaches.

Read Naturally

Commercial Program
Comprehension, Oral Reading Fluency, Vocabulary
Tier II,III
1st—12th

Read Naturally® is designed to improve reading fluency using a combination of books, audiotapes, and computer software. The program has three main strategies: repeated reading of text for developing oral reading fluency, teacher modeling of story reading, and systematic monitoring of student progress by the students themselves and by teachers. Students work at a reading level appropriate for their achievement level and progress through the program independently.

REWARDS Plus

Commercial Program
Comprehension, Oral Reading Fluency, Phonics & Decoding, Vocabulary
Tier II
6th—12th

REWARDS Plus is a strategic, short term intervention program. It is an explicit and systematic program following the “I do,” you do,” “we do” model.

REWARDS Secondary

Commercial Program
Oral Reading Fluency, Phonics & Decoding, Vocabulary
Tier II
6th—12th

REWARDS Secondary is a strategic, short term intervention program. It is an explicit and systematic program following the “I do,” you do,” “we do” model.

SIPPS

Commercial Program
Phonemic Awareness, Phonics & Decoding
Tier I,II,III
Pre-K—12th

The SIPPS program is a systematic decoding program that helps developing and struggling readers. Teachers at all grade levels can provide instruction based on student need, as determined by the SIPPS placement test.  Additionally, it makes use of grade-appropriate materials.

 

There are three levels in the SIPPS program—Beginning and Extension Levels for grades K–3 and Challenge Level for grades 2–12. The content of Beginning and Extension Levels is covered by SIPPS Plus for grades 4–12.

 

When used as a developmental reading program, SIPPS is intended for kindergarteners through fourth-graders. As an intervention program, it can be used in grades 1–12.

Vocabulary for Achievement

Commercial Program
Vocabulary
3rd—12th

Vocabulary for Achievement is a program designed to teach vocabulary skills and strategies with 30 lessons thematically organized around central concepts.

Wilson Reading System®

Commercial Program
Comprehension, Oral Reading Fluency, Phonemic Awareness, Phonics & Decoding, Vocabulary
Tier III
2nd—12th

The Wilson Reading System® (WRS®) is the flagship program of Wilson Language Training® and the foundation of all other Wilson programs.  The WRS® is an intensive Tier 3 program.  It is designed for students with word-level deficits not making sufficient progress through their current intervention, have been unable to learn with other teaching strategies and require multisensory language instruction, or who require more intensive structured literacy instruction due to a language-based learning disability, such as dyslexia.

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