Student struggles with:

Phonemic Awareness:
rhyme

Reading interventions to try:

Teach nursery rhymes; ask students to recall the rhyming
words.

syllables

Play Thumbs up! if words rhyme and thumbs down! if

words dont rhyme.
Do word sorts with picture cards: words that rhyme/words
that dont rhyme
Clap and count the syllables/word parts

onset/rimes

Say, What rhymes with at, and starts with /c/?

Beginning, middle, ending

sounds

Invent new rhymes or poems.

Play Going to the store: Im going to the store to buy jam.
Next child repeats and adds another item beginning with the
same sound.

Blending

Play the Name Game. Example: Mary mops marbles; Sally

sings songs; John juggles juniper jellybeans.
Use a puppet. Puppet says words very slowly; students must
blend sounds to figure out what the puppet said.

Segmentation

When stretching words, finger count the number of

phonemes heard.

Phoneme manipulation

Ask, What word would be left if we took away /k/ from

cat? or What word would we have if we added /f/ to lake?

Phonics

Allow students to manipulate magnetic letters on cookie

sheets or the white board or your filing cabinet.

Fluency

Display a mystery message. Supply some letters and ask

children to fill in the rest (sort of a modified Hangman).
Conduct word sorts (vowel sounds, number of syllables, parts
of speech, rhyming words, silent letters, etc.)
Model fluent reading
Readers Theater
Repeated Reading (DIBELS progress monitoring)
Choral reading
Echo reading
Books on tape
Use Whisper Phones so students can hear themselves read.

Pocket charts can be used to teach phrasing. Cut up a

favorite song or poem into phrases for students to practice.

Vocabulary

Post a Word of the Day; predict the meaning, look it up;

illustrate it
Word Walls are critical. They must be current, visible, and
used daily.
Graphic organizers/word webs help children see connections.
Frayer Model is a good example for vocabulary building.
Pre-teach vocabulary, especially in content areas.
Predict-o-gram: select five words from a reading passage.
Write the words and ask students to predict how they are
used, what they mean, etc. Chart or web their ideas.
QuestionX3: Determine the meaning of a word by asking:
What is it?
What is it like?
What is an example? Non example?
Teach affixes (prefixes and suffixes).
Play vocabulary bingo matching words to meanings.

Comprehension

Use RIVET technique

Model (metacognition); Teach self-prompts
Teach Jot Charting: this is especially effective when
reading informational text.
Teach students to make connections (text to self, text to
text, text to world)
Encourage students to visualize.
Use a note taking guide or story frame.
Use Whisper Phones so students can hear themselves as
they read.
Teach students to self check using Click or Clunk method.