Interventions for Struggling Students

School to Home Connections

  • Compact for Reading
    (A collection of school-to-home homework to support classroom activities--organized by grade level)

 

Independent Reading

Guided Reading

Guided Reading Lesson Plans for Lakewood Literacy Center Titles

Literacy Center Activities

 

Reading Mini-Assessments from Broward County, Florida
(Could be used for SAT10 practice!)

Creating a Print-Rich Environment

 

Phonological Awareness Skills

Rhyming

Syllables

  • Syllable Cards (Can go with the book It's Pumpkin Time, but can just be used alone. Print cards on cardstock. Say the word and have students segment it into syllables. You may sort by number of syllables.)
  • More Syllable Segmentation Cards (These picture cards can be used for having students segment a word into syllables or you could change the directions to ask students to identify the initial sound in each of the spoken words.)

Word Walls

  • Word Fun (Download it, cut it, laminate the pages, punch holes in the top left-hand corner and place the pages on a silver clip ring. This will be a great resource when you're trying to think of a huge variety of activities to do with words and word walls.)
  • Would you like to print your own word wall words directly on a sentence strip? Follow these guidelines!
    • Open a blank page in Microsoft Word. These instructions will vary depending on what version of Microsoft Word you have on your computer.
    • Go to "File" and "Page Setup."
    • Click the "Paper" tab.
    • In the paper size box, scroll down and select "custom size."
    • Type in the exact width and height of your sentence strip paper.
    • Select "Horizontal" layout then OK.
    • You will need to adjust font size. (I like to use 150 size font)
    • It is possible to adjust top and bottom margins to make letters sit on the dotted lines. You will have to play around with that.
    • It's also possible to print directly onto index cards by setting the "rule bars" to the correct size for the card.
    • Look at the rulers at the top and the left-hand side of the page. The ends of the ruler bars should be gray and the rest white. The white section shows the print area for the page. By resizing these you can control the size of the printed page. By clicking on the line where the white area and gray area meet and holding down the mouse button, you can adjust the size of the print area. You need to move both the top and the side rulers inwards to make the print page smaller. The number you set it to depends on the size of the card you are printing on.

 

 

Writing Resources

 

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