The goals of Strategic Intervention  Provides Scaffolding  Extra Support  Extra reading practice

Components of the Strategic Intervention Resource Kit Teacher Guide Interactive Reader Skill cards Practice Book Teacher Resource Book Assessment Book

Teacher Guide Lessons directly aligned with and correlated to the lessons in the StoryTown Edition.

Interactive Reader Provides accessible reading material with built in support for the child. Found in Think Central.

Skill Cards Cards with skill focus

Practice Book Practice pages that accompany each lesson include Fluency Practice Page: Grammar Practice Page: Writing Trait Practice Page: Phonics and Spelling Practice Page:

Fluency practice page

Grammar practice page

Writing Trait practice page

Phonics and Spelling practice page

Teacher Resource Book

Using the Strategic Intervention Teacher Guide Vocabulary lessons and Student-Friendly Explanations to preteach and reteach key vocabulary that appears in the Interactive Reader selection. Robust Vocabulary lessons to enrich children’s listening and speaking vocabularies and help them master the language of school. Phonics and Spelling lessons to systematically preteach and reteach basic phonics skills and connect spelling and phonics. Fluency activities that reinforce key vocabulary and phonics and spelling skills, while providing reading practice and promoting oral reading fluency.

Teachers Guide Comprehension Focus Skill lessons to ensure that struggling readers get the in- depth instruction they need to reach grade-level standards. Directed Reading lessons for the Interactive Reader selection to reinforce basic comprehension skills, using questions and teacher modeling. Grammar Lessons to help children learn and apply the fundamentals of grammar, mechanics and sentence structure. Interactive Writing Support that reinforces key writing traits and forms. Review Lessons that provides cumulative reviews of skills.

Suggested Lessons Storytown Strategic Interventions can be used with Storytown to preteach the skills that will be introduced in the core lesson. Or Storytown Strategic Interventions can be used as a stand-alone program

For use with Storytown Storytown Strategic Intervention concentrates on Preteaching and reteaching. For Instance, on Day 5 students will be taught the first lesson on next week phonics skill, High-Frequency Words, comprehension Focus Skill, robust vocabulary words, one aspect of the grammar skill and be progress monitored. On Day 1 Reteach the skill that was introduced on Day 1 in Core class Reteach the Vocabulary Words, Reteach the Focus Skill, and then Preteach for the next lesson Robust Vocabulary words, the aspect of grammar that will be introduced on Day 2.

Storytown Strategic Intervention as a stand-alone program Only different between use with Storytown and as a stand alone is in Day 1 all other lessons are the same as.

Lessons on the Teacher’s Guide All the lessons are in script and broken down into 5 minute lessons. There are five 5 minute lessons.

FAQ Can I use it for whole class if I am using Walk to Read? Yes, but you will have to work with small groups as well Can I use this for my Tier III students? This intervention is designed for Tier II, however you can use it for Tier III, if this is too hard you can go down to the next grade level. Can I use this for my whole class if I am not using Walk to Read? No, however you can teach the core with all students and work with your Tier II and Tier III in smaller groups.