These 11 intervention overviews and sample lesson plans illustrate instruction provided to struggling readers in elementary school (grades 1–5) as part of our 2006–2016 early intervention research. These sample lessons address students’ different needs and were implemented in Tier 2 of a response to intervention model. They are appropriate for use with struggling readers in elementary school. Lessons focus on comprehension, word study, or phonics. In 2015, an after-school intervention program with computer instruction component was implemented.
For the research study, some of the lesson plans were based on published interventions; however, the lesson plans provided here were revised to be more widely applicable. For the grades 2 and 3 phonics plan, we also provide teacher templates for use with some of the activities outlined in the plan.
Preferred Citations
The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk. (2012). First-grade intervention. Austin, TX: Author.
The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk. (2012). Second-grade explicit intervention. Austin, TX: Author.
The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk. (2012). Second-grade comprehension-based intervention. Austin, TX: Author.
The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk. (2012). Second- and third-grade explicit phonics intervention. Austin, TX: Author.
The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk. (2012). Teacher templates. Austin, TX: Author.
The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk. (2013). Fourth-grade text-based intervention. Austin, TX: Author.
The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk. (2014). Fifth-grade text-based intervention. Austin, TX: Author.
The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk. (2015). Fourth- to fifth-grade text-based intervention with self-regulation. Austin, TX: Author.
The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk. (2016). Third- to fifth-grade after-school book club intervention with self-regulation lite and computer component. Austin, TX: Author.
The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk. (2016). Third- to fifth-grade after-school book club intervention with writing and computer component. Austin, TX: Author.
The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk. (2016). Third- to fifth-grade after-school text-based intervention with self-regulation and computer component. Austin, TX: Author.
The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk. (2016). Third- to fifth-grade after-school text-based intervention with writing and computer component. Austin, TX: Author.
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