The Science of Reading Intervention Program (Complete Full-Year Program)
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Program Description
The Science of Reading Intervention Program: Word Recognition, Language Conventions, and Assessment-Based Instruction has been specifically designed for ages 8-adult students in reading intervention, ELL, MLL, SPED, and adult literacy who have significant decoding (phonics), encoding (spelling), fluency, and comprehension challenges.
This accelerated, full-year, research-based program is perfectly suited to both veteran and new reading teachers. No need to take 160 hours of LETRS training or earn OG certification. Teachers get the training they need as they teach with easy-to-follow, scripted directions. The instructional components require no prep and only minimal correction. This program has been developed by teachers for teachers to significantly improve their students' reading skills as quickly as possible.
Quick Video Overviews of the three program components:
Word Recognition
Language Comprehension
Assessment-based Instruction
WORD RECOGNITION
CLICK TO VIEW THE WORD RECOGNITION PROGRAM COMPONENT (Phonics, Spelling, Fluency, and Comprehension student resources). NOTE: The teacher's guide features an additional 1900+ PowerPoint or Google slides (teachers' choice) to display and teach. Slide examples follow this program description.
Teachers display and teach 54 lessons (3 per week), using PowerPoint or Google slides (teachers' choice). Students practice with corresponding worksheets, activities, and decodable books.
- Blending, Segmenting, and Spelling Lessons: Each phonics and spelling lesson introduces focus sound-spellings and 2 new Heart Words. The teacher leads students in continuous blending, segmenting, and spelling activities.
- Practice: During each lesson, students practice what they are learning with Say 'em as you spell 'em! spelling and handwriting worksheets; Say It! Spell It! Read It! Word Chains phonics and spelling worksheets; and Heart Words worksheets. The teacher displays answers and guides students' self-correction.
- Sam and Friends Phonics Books: Students practice the focus spelling and Heart Words in decodable stories with teenage characters and plots for each of the 54 daily lessons. Each book provides comprehension questions and word fluency practice in print and digital formats.
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Sound Boxes: Each lesson concludes with a quick formative assessment worksheet with dictation and segmenting sounds. Subsequent lessons begin with review.
*Multi-Syllabic Word Work Vowel flexing and morphology instruction and practice worksheets, beginning at Lesson 30
LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION
CLICK TO VIEW THE LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION PROGRAM COMPONENT No samples here. See the entire print version of the program component.
The LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION program component features print resources, designed for students who have completed the word recognition program or have demonstrated basic mastery of the alphabetic code and can read with some degree of fluency. The 7 Weekly Language Comprehension Activities include integrated reading and writing instruction and practice.
- Background Knowledge: Mentor text bell ringers
- Vocabulary Worksheets: Academic language, Greek and Latin morphology, figures of speech, connotations, multiple meaning words with the Diagnostic Academic Language Placement Assessment. Also includes interactive digital and print Morphology Walls.
- Syntax in Reading
- Reading Comprehension: Strategies and expository animal articles, composed in tiered grades 1-7 levels with inferential questions
- Literacy Knowledge: Narrative and expository genre and text structure
- Greek and Latin Morphology
- Executive Function and Study Skills
ASSESSMENT-BASED INSTRUCTION
CLICK TO VIEW THE ASSESSMENT-BASED PROGRAM COMPONENT No samples here. See the entire print version of the program component.
The ASSESSMENT-BASED INSTRUCTION program component features diagnostically-based instructional resources to differentiate and individualize instruction.
Even though students have completed the word recognition program, some students and new transfer students will need second-chance instruction with more intense tutoring and practice in easily-managed small groups and independent practice.
The program includes comprehensive assessments and matching instructional resources to fill in yet-to-be-mastered gaps with small group differentiated and individualized instruction in these literacy skills:
- Phonemic Awareness
- Alphabetic Awareness
- Phonics
- Expository Reading Fluency (with timing sheets and YouTube modeled readings--the same as the reading comprehension animal articles--recorded at three different speeds)
- Heart Words and Phonics Games
- Spelling Patterns
- Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics
Sample pages
25 pages from the program · click any page to zoomWhat teachers say
All reviews“An extensive product suitable for students of all ages. Love that it is suitable testing and resources for older students with reading difficulties- there are too few suitable resources for this age group. Reading passages are appealing with attached ideas on how to best target each one.”
“The Sam and Friends Phonics Books are amazing. I have been using them for two years now, my middle school kids love them, they can relate to the stories, and I have seen improved reading in all of them. They would often want to read additional books and be upset that we had to wait till the next day. My kids often said these are great to read and not about baby stuff. Several were like, 'He should make it a novel because it kind of is!'”
“I am an Instructional Coach and am responsible for running Response to Intervention groups, this is the perfect resource that I have been looking for! Thank you so much for creating it!”
“I'm really am impressed by the way the lessons are explicit and simple but still accelerate the learning. Our students are making good progress using them. They are perfect for the students who struggle with spelling.”
“The Sam and Friends Books (decodables) are just what my struggling middle school and high school readers need!”
“Your reading assessments made me "the hit" at our SHARE faculty meeting! Thank you.”
“Excellent! Just what I needed for my ELLs!”
“I love the assessment parts. The students were much more willing to try when they understood that they would work on skills they as individuals were missing. The worksheets are detailed enough to really cover the material without overwhelming the students. I teach 9th and 10th graders that are in the juvenile correctional system so they have many educational gaps, but this is structured so that I can easily work with a small group or individual as needed to fill those gaps.”
“I just wanted to thank you for creating these explicit and extensive resources for students in need. Thank you! I am working with one class of ESL students and two classes of Read 180 students with behavior issues and have been struggling to find methods to address their specific areas of weakness. I am also teaching three senior level English classes and have found them to have serious deficits in many critical areas that may impact their success if they are attending college level courses in a year's time. I have been trying to find a way to help all of them in specific and measurable ways - and I found you!”
“Very useful. I love the flexibility to target the individual needs of all my students. Thank you!”
“This has been a great resource for my small group instruction!”
“The Science of Reading Intervention Program is a great resource to use with my struggling 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders.”
“This is a fantastic resource.”
“Our middle school students love your fluency articles and practice. So far we are delighted with the program and are happy with the results!”
“I used this with a student I was tutoring, made a great improvement in her fluency skills!”
“Used during our after school tutoring to boost DIBELS scores! Great product! Thanks!”
“The Diagnostic Academic Language Assessment (thank you for the Google forms!) placed my students right where they need to learn. The vocabulary worksheets cover every one of the comprehensive Anchor Standards for Language 4, 5, and 6. So well done!”
FAQ
Questions teachers ask
What is in the complete program?
It combines three components: word recognition, language comprehension, and assessment-based instruction. The word recognition component alone contains 54 lessons taught from PowerPoint slides with corresponding student worksheets.
Who is it designed for?
It is designed for ages 8 through adult in reading intervention, ELL, MLL, SPED, and adult literacy who have significant decoding and encoding challenges. The publisher notes it works equally well with a class of 25 or a small group of 5.
Do I need special certification to teach it?
No. The program states that no 160-hour LETRS training or OG certification is required, because the scripted, easy-to-follow directions train you as you teach. Components require no prep and only minimal correction.
What order do the components go in?
The language comprehension component is designed for students who have completed the word recognition program or who already have basic mastery of the alphabetic code and can read with some fluency. The assessment-based component provides second-chance instruction for students and new transfers with remaining gaps.
What is covered in the language comprehension half?
Seven weekly activities cover background knowledge bell ringers, vocabulary including academic language, Greek and Latin morphology, figures of speech, connotations and multiple meaning words, syntax in reading, reading comprehension with tiered grades 1 to 7 animal articles, literacy knowledge, and executive function and study skills.
What does the assessment-based component add?
It provides comprehensive assessments and matching instructional resources for phonemic awareness, alphabetic awareness, phonics, expository reading fluency with timing sheets and YouTube modeled readings at three speeds, Heart Words and phonics games, spelling patterns, and grammar, usage, and mechanics.
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