What is Focused Reading Intervention?

Our focused reading intervention kits are intended for students in grades ranging from kindergarten to Grade 8. Each kit offers effective strategies to support instruction, increase student mastery in key literacy skills, and boost student outcomes.

Teachers and parents can rest assured our programs are grounded in current research yet fun and engaging for students of all ages.

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Digital Resources

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  • PDFs of student activity pages as fillable PDF forms
  • PDFs of teacher resources that include graphic organizers, pacing plans, etc.
  • Assessments as Google Forms
  • 3 Literacy Fluency Game sets
  • Audio recordings of all 30 passages

Virtual Learning Support

  • Recorded video tutorials for synchronous and asynchronous learning to help teachers and instructional aides understand how to implement the program for best results.
  • View our sample pacing framework for remote learning.

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Teacher's Guide

  • Bridge the gap between struggling students and proficient readers with effective research-based strategies that serve as a resource for strengthening student comprehension of informational text and literature.
  • Allows teachers to save prep time as the kit is ready-made and ready to use.
  • Focused and rigorous reading intervention program organized into a Teacher's Guide with 30 standards-based lessons.
  • Lessons are designed with a focus on a single comprehension strategy that can be used before, during, and/or after reading.

Assessment Guide

  • Each level of Focused Reading Intervention provides teachers with numerous opportunities for assessment in print and digital formats.
  • Easy-to-use assessments in print and digital to help teachers administer pre-tests, progress monitoring with Quick Check, oral reading records, and summative post tests to drive reading instruction and further intervention.
  • Includes formative and summative assessments and progress-monitoring opportunities for each lesson.
  • Digital assessment and reporting tools track progress and help students and teachers adapt to new digital testing formats.

Student Guided Practice Book

  • The full-color Student Guided Practice Book reinforces and extends knowledge through fun and engaging passages and activities.
  • Student activities focus on foundational and key reading skills to help struggling readers become proficient.
  • Reinforces vocabulary acquisition, language development, and foundational reading skills through a variety of Word Work activities.
  • Builds reading comprehension skills by using text-dependent questions to reinforce reading carefully and closely.
  • Enriches reading and writing connection with Written Response activities.
  • Each kit includes a single copy; additional copies can be ordered.

Games

  • Fun games motivate struggling readers and reinforce reading skills to improve reading performance.
  • This series has 3 Literacy Game Sets (which includes the game board, directions, answer key, and game pieces), and 3 Digital Literacy Games to fully engage students with skill-based games.

Student Engagement

  • Teaches key reading skills by focusing on reading comprehension, fluency, word recognition, academic vocabulary, and phonics to bridge the gap between proficient and struggling readers.
  • Offers 6 interactive Literacy Games in print and digital formats to maximize student participation.
  • Engages students with skill-based games to excite and motivate struggling readers.
  • Fun, interactive digital and print options to best meet diverse learners' needs.
  • Provides students with a variety of opportunities to practice, reinforce, and master key reading skills.

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 Focused Reading Intervention: I love the way the pre-test is set up. It is easy for the teacher to see where the need is and we are able to differentiate instruction from day 1.  

 I am happy to report that we have successfully implemented the Focused Reading Intervention kits in our county summer school program for grades 3-9. One of the most helpful features of the kit includes a pre-assessment that provides teachers with useful information about student needs and strengths and allows them to plan instruction accordingly.  

 Focused Mathematics and Focused Reading were a huge success. Students and teachers loved them. Our students showed SIGNIFICANT growth in Reading and Math. Students asked why they couldn't use the kits throughout the year. My teachers said that it was the easiest summer they have had and would teach again if they could use the kits. I can't thank you enough for your support and help with the project. It was a HUGE success.  

 Excellent kit with valuable materials to use in the classroom to help our struggler readers move to the next level.  

 The content of the kit is amazing! So easy to implement.  

 I really enjoyed utilizing the Focused Intervention Kits this summer. The materials that were provided in the kits were very useful and resourceful. I was able to pinpoint exactly what skills my students needed to work on based on the results from the Pretest. The lessons were great for whole group and small group lessons.  

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Focused Reading Intervention: Student Guided Practice Book Level K

This dynamic student resource is packed with a variety of activities, text types, and passages that meet Common Core and other state standards to engage students and bridge the gap between struggling and proficient readers.

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Focused Reading Intervention: Student Guided Practice Book Level 1

Engage students with this dynamic student guided practice book that uses a variety of activities, text types, and passages that meet Common Core and other state standards to bridge the gap between struggling and proficient readers.

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Focused Reading Intervention: Student Guided Practice Book Level 2

Full of engaging activities, this practice book helps advance students' knowledge and reading skills. This dynamic, colorful book also features a variety of text types and passages that meet Common Core and other state standards.

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Focused Reading Intervention: Student Guided Practice Book Level 3

With a focus on third grade reading skills, this practice book reinforces and extends students' reading skills. This dynamic, colorful book features a variety of activities, text types, and passages that meet Common Core and other state standards.

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Focused Reading Intervention: Student Guided Practice Book Level 4

Full of attention-grabbing activities, this practice book strengthens students' knowledge and reading skills. This dynamic, colorful book also features a variety of text types and passages that meet Common Core and other state standards.

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Focused Reading Intervention: Student Guided Practice Book Level 5

This practice book uses a variety of fun-filled activities, text types, and passages that meet Common Core and other state standards to reinforce reading skills while bridging the gap between struggling readers and proficient readers.

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Focused Reading Intervention: Student Guided Practice Book Level 6

Engage students with this dynamic practice book uses a variety of activities and passages that meet Common Core and other state standards. This book boosts students' skills, bridging the gap between struggling and proficient readers.

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Focused Reading Intervention: Student Guided Practice Book Level 7

This practice book enhances students' reading skills with a variety of engaging activities, text types, and passages that meet Common Core and other state standards. Bridge the gap between struggling and proficient readers!

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Focused Reading Intervention: Student Guided Practice Book Level 8

Engage students with this dynamic practice book, featuring motivating activities and passages that meet Common Core and other state standards. Students, from below-level to above-level, will improve their reading skills.

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Focused Reading Intervention: Student Guided Practice Book Level K

This dynamic student resource is packed with a variety of activities, text types, and passages that meet Common Core and other state standards to engage students and bridge the gap between struggling and proficient readers.

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Focused Reading Intervention: Student Guided Practice Book Level 1

Engage students with this dynamic student guided practice book that uses a variety of activities, text types, and passages that meet Common Core and other state standards to bridge the gap between struggling and proficient readers.

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Focused Reading Intervention: Student Guided Practice Book Level 2

Full of engaging activities, this practice book helps advance students' knowledge and reading skills. This dynamic, colorful book also features a variety of text types and passages that meet Common Core and other state standards.

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Focused Reading Intervention: Student Guided Practice Book Level 3

With a focus on third grade reading skills, this practice book reinforces and extends students' reading skills. This dynamic, colorful book features a variety of activities, text types, and passages that meet Common Core and other state standards.

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Focused Reading Intervention: Student Guided Practice Book Level 4

Full of attention-grabbing activities, this practice book strengthens students' knowledge and reading skills. This dynamic, colorful book also features a variety of text types and passages that meet Common Core and other state standards.

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Focused Reading Intervention: Student Guided Practice Book Level 5

This practice book uses a variety of fun-filled activities, text types, and passages that meet Common Core and other state standards to reinforce reading skills while bridging the gap between struggling readers and proficient readers.

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Focused Reading Intervention: Student Guided Practice Book Level 6

Engage students with this dynamic practice book uses a variety of activities and passages that meet Common Core and other state standards. This book boosts students' skills, bridging the gap between struggling and proficient readers.

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Focused Reading Intervention: Student Guided Practice Book Level 7

This practice book enhances students' reading skills with a variety of engaging activities, text types, and passages that meet Common Core and other state standards. Bridge the gap between struggling and proficient readers!

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Focused Reading Intervention: Student Guided Practice Book Level 8

Engage students with this dynamic practice book, featuring motivating activities and passages that meet Common Core and other state standards. Students, from below-level to above-level, will improve their reading skills.

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National Reading Panel Findings and Recommendations: Struggling Students Need Effective Reading Instruction to Succeed

Reading interventions are vital to student success in all subjects and grade levels, from young children in kindergarten to older students in middle school.

In 2000, the National Reading Panel (NRP) identified five components to successful reading comprehension:

  1. Phonological awareness/phonemic awareness (identifying and manipulating sounds, and understanding words are comprised of sounds that can be used to create other words)
  2. Phonics (matching sounds to letters or letter groups)
  3. Fluency (reading quickly and accurately)
  4. Vocabulary (a language's words and word meanings)
  5. Comprehension (understanding what's read)

Students in grades K to Grade 8 can fall behind in reading fluency for several reasons, including:

  • lacking the phonemic awareness / phonological awareness needed to support word recognition skills, decode multisyllable words, or recognize sentence structure.
  • having one or more learning disabilities (LDs).

After conducting a comprehensive analysis of reading research, the NRP determined students benefit most from reading instruction following six core instruction strategies:

  1. Differentiating instruction to reach students at diverse levels of reading comprehension (i.e. adapting to the needs of students who struggle and high-achieving students).
  2. Providing explicit instruction in skills and concepts related to word reading, decoding multisyllabic words, vocabulary instruction, and fluency. This is particularly important for children with learning disabilities.
  3. Teaching children clearly and systematically (sequentially) to ensure simpler, critical skills are taught before more complex skills.
  4. Providing opportunities for student growth through practice and positive/corrective feedback.
  5. Teaching reading strategies to overcome unfamiliar words (i.e. looking for known parts of the word, sounding it out, and checking within the context of the sentence).
  6. Conducting consistent student progress assessments to ensure reading fluency improvement.

Struggling students benefit markedly from explicit direct instruction when remediating academic difficulties in reading. Effective reading instruction is especially important for English language learners struggling with reading comprehension, particularly elementary students. When significant reading problems aren't quickly addressed with systematic instruction, students are unlikely to catch up until intensive intervention is provided.