Interventions With a High Probability of Success

1. Interventions With a High Probability of Success Carolinas’ Innovations in Education Conference 2007 Giancarlo Anselmo Cleveland County Schools

2. Universal Screenings • Not an intervention • Can lead to great interventions because of knowing where to intervene • DIBEL’s assessments led to the grab bag intervention across kindergarten classrooms

3. Kindergarten Intervention • Grab bag game • Medium sized bag that is filled with all kinds of small objects • Animal toys, cars, toy houses, etc. • Teacher has student grab items out of bag and proceeds to quiz student and rest of class about object • Questions consist of: What sound does that begin with? What sound does it end with? What is the middle sound? Can you say all the sounds slowly? Can you blend the sounds?

4. Kindergarten DIBEL’s Data

5. Fluency • Lots of focus as a school on the importance of fluency in reading and overall comprehension of written material • Harcourt Trophies reading curriculum • Intervention supplement • Repeated reading intervention

6. Positive Students made progress if fluency was the only problem New area for teachers in 3-5 to focus on Negative Too much emphasis on oral reading fluency led to teachers not looking at prerequisite skills to proper oral reading. Positive and Negative to ORF Practice

7. Teachers Teaching Teachers • Intervention training done in the middle of the year • 90% of training was done by teachers who had shown great ability to run interventions in their classrooms and differentiate instruction • Training went very well and most teachers were very receptive to ideas from other teachers

8. Questions