Intensifying Reading Instruction for Students Who Are Not Making Desired Progress

This newsletter provides information and resources for increasing the intensity of reading instruction for students who are not making desired progress toward their goals.

5 Steps for Intensifying Instruction

Intensify instruction in critical reading areas that research demonstrates are important for all readers, taking into consideration each student’s specific reading difficulties.
Increase student engagement during instruction in these critical areas of reading by using cognitive processing strategies that attend to underlying learning impairments.
Design your reading instruction to align with the five evidence-based instructional principles that are key to effective teaching.
Modify instructional delivery to increase both the amount of time students spend learning reading skills and the pace of learning.
Use assessments to support decisions about what and how to teach.

For more information read, Intensifying Reading Instruction for Students Who Are Not Making Desired Progress, an Educator’s Science of Reading Toolbox By the National Center on Improving Literacy in Partnership with The Reading League Journal

NCIL resources can help you learn how to systematically intensify key aspects of instruction based on each student’s individual learning needs, whether the student has dyslexia or other reading difficulties. Intensifying instruction involves adjusting what you teach, and how you teach it.

Resources

Intensifying instruction for students with reading difficulties is challenging, and research on best practices in intensification is continuously emerging. Visit NCIL’s brand new Instructional Intensification Implementation Toolkit for the most up-to-date information on increasing the intensity of reading instruction and intervention for students who are not making desired progress toward their goals. This toolkit includes: