Meridian Reading Intervention
This is my ninth year at Meridian as a reading support teacher or reading interventionist. Fifth and sixth grade students work with me two or three times a week in small groups or one on one to improve their skills in any of the five reading areas: phonics, phonology, fluency, vocabulary, or comprehension. We meet during Guided Study, which is a thirty minute block of time each day, when teachers provide guided and differentiated activities for small groups to improve skills and strategies. Sometimes I push into the classroom to work with students or they are pulled out to my room, but they are never missing a core lesson during that time.
Students receive reading support based on their ISAT, MAP, and Aimsweb scores, along with classroom work and teacher recommendation. The CAS (Collaborate Achieve Succeed) team, comprised of administrators, interventionists, classroom teachers, social worker, and psychologist, meet to review all of the data and determine a plan for intervention. Before the team meets, I evaluate a student’s everall reading to determine whether there is a specific area of need and share this information at the meeting. This same team meets every six weeks to review each student’s progress and to update goals or release a student, if goals are met. Parents are notified of all of these meetings and are invited to attend.