Shell Education The Reading Intervention Tool Kit, Grades 4-8

Benefit from wealth of teaching experience with helpful assessment, management and implementation strategies that boost reading comprehension. Tried-and-true interventions and tools for data gathering help teachers develop more effective tactics for reading instruction. Draws on a teachers extensive experience to offer research-based tools for reading comprehension development. Ideal for improving comprehension levels for literary and informational texts. Classroom-tested interventions help instructors support struggling readers in just a few minutes or extended sessions. Detailed information guides 5-, 10-, 15- and 30-40-minute sessions, so its easy to tailor techniques to the time available. Assessment strategies demonstrate methods for better understanding students needs. Includes suggestions for assessing reading skills through student writing on reading and differentiating instruction to suit various skill levels. A comprehensive roster of resources helps you begin modifying curriculum right away. Includes student work examples, prompts for teachers, sample think-alouds and texts, data collection and observation forms and scaffolds for use with each intervention. Meets Common Core standards.