Reading intervention is extra help and targeted instruction for students who are struggling with learning to read. Teachers reteach and provide instruction that builds skills in reading and acquisition of language. There are proven progressions and elements of literacy, but intervention looks different for each student. A student who struggles to learn letter sounds will be benefit from phonics instruction, but a student who struggles with comprehension may not need phonics but instruction in strategies that help them understand what they read.
Do You Need Reading Help for Your Student?
Struggling readers are under a lot of stress. It is important to address the deficit skills as soon as possible and as early in a child’s academic career as possible. Most children, however, are not identified and treated earlier than third grade. The truth is that how that child was reading in first grade would have strongly predicted what kind of reading success the student would have as a third grader!
Difficulty learning how to read is often a shock for those eager to learn and for those who love and support them. Bright, verbal people sometimes experience difficulty learning how to read fluently. For those of us who never had trouble learning how to read, it is easy to forget how unnatural this process actually is for the human race.