Part One
It Starts with Understanding Your Child
Before any instruction begins, a good interventionist needs to understand exactly where your child is. Every child's profile is different.
Diagnostic assessment
Not a standardized test to pass or fail. This is a diagnostic process that examines strengths and weaknesses across phonemic awareness, phonics knowledge, decoding accuracy, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
Individualized planning
From the assessment, an instructional plan is built following a clear scope and sequence. Skills are taught in a logical, cumulative order. Nothing is skipped.
Part Two
What a Typical Session Looks Like
While every session is tailored, most structured literacy sessions follow a predictable routine. This consistency is intentional.
Review and warm-up
Quick review of previously taught concepts: sound cards, phonics patterns, high-frequency words. The purpose is keeping earlier skills sharp and building automaticity.
New skill introduction
A new concept is introduced explicitly. The interventionist explains, models, and guides through examples. No guessing.
Multisensory practice
Practice using multiple senses: seeing letters, hearing sounds, saying aloud, writing or manipulating letter tiles.
Reading practice
The child reads connected text with patterns they have been learning. Controlled text gives a high success rate.
Dictation and spelling
Writing words and sentences using patterns being learned. This reinforces sound-to-letter connections from the opposite direction.
Part Three
How It Differs from School
Families often ask how intervention differs from classroom instruction.
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