RTI Interactive Intervention: Lowercase Letters

Intervention are essential to helping your students become proficient in fundamental skills for reading and math.  As you assess your students and gather data you find some students who need extra support in gaining the skills you taught.  Taking these students in a small group to reteach the concept allows students to get individualized and intense support.

The Interactive Intervention packet (Lowercase Letters) includes activities and interventions that help students become confident and help keep them engaged. These are activities I use in my small group that have helped my students master their lowercase letters and sounds.

My favorite activity is the Cover Up Cards.  Students each get a card with letters on them.  You can choose a red or blue card.  The red card focuses on the first 13 letters (a-m) and the blue cards focus on the last 13 letters (n-z).  There are also blank cards that you can write the letters your students need to work on.

There are some different ways to play with the Cover Up Cards.  I like to use magnetic chips because the students love them, but you can use small erasers or even pennies.  You call out a letter and students cover up that letter on their card.

Lotto Cards are another quick and easy way to get your students to learn their letters.  Flip over an alphabet flashcard and have your students place a marker on the matching letter.  I print each sheet on a different color, which help me keep those cards together.  The entire sheet assess all 26 letters.  Students love trying to get their card filled up first!

                                    

Matching letters with manipulatives you have in the room is a great way to reinforce letter recognition.  I have included several examples in the picture below (magnetic letters, bottle caps, letter beads)  This can be an independent center as well.  See if your students can name all the blue letters.  Another fun way to asses your students.

                                            

The Staircase Game is a new favorite of mine.  Place your flashcards on the staircase and choose a token to play with.  See my little red bear.  He is climbing the staircase.  Start at the bottom and move up the staircase each time you say the letter correctly until you get to the top.

                                         

Fluency Strips is a fun way to help students say those letters name accurately and quickly.  Great to use if you assess LNF (letter name fluency).  Students spin or roll the dice to select a character.  Then they say the letters next to that character as fast as they can.  

                            

There are fun Flashcards with the Superhero and Princess theme.  Lots of fun ideas and games, including POW!.  A fun game where students identify the letters, but when they get a POW! card  all the letters they have are put back in the pile.

There are independent worksheets for that focus on the lowercase letter.  Sequencing and visual discrimination help students practice those skills you taught in their small group.

There are several letter assessments to use so you and your students can monitor their progress. Students can see visually how well they are learning their letters.  

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I have been targeting key words and phrases used in the mclass TRC reading books for years to help my students feel confident and successful.

Many students have not been exposed to certain words before they are expected to read them.  With these books and resources, I ensure that the students have practiced these words with me and indepenently.

I have spent countless hours searching for books that targeted the exact words needed.  Now, I have books that target those words and phrases for me.

This packet is meant to supplement your guided reading program and give support to students who are struggling.   I went through and made a list of every word that appears in the assessment books.  Most are common sight words, but some are more complex words that I want to make sure the student has been exposed to.

Here is how I use the books.  

First you need to print and assemble the books.

You can have the student assemble the books or you 

can pre make them.  I have done both.  

It just depends on how much time you have.  

You cut around the solid lined boxes on the bottom.

If you want the students to put the book in order the same way each time, I suggest writing a number on each picture so they can put the book in the order easily.  

Ultimatley, the order does not matter except 

if you are choral reading together.

The picture without the Glue/Staple direction goes on top as the cover.  I find it easiest to staple.   When you are done you have a great book the student can use over and over again.  I kept this packet black and white to allow 

the students to color the pictures.

After the students feel confident reading them, 

I send them home for them to practice. 

The sight word worksheets coorelate with each word in the books.  After our guided reading lesson, the students complete the worksheets.  

Here are some examples:

For the scrambled sentences I dictate the sentence at first and the students put the words in order.  They practice writing the sentence and then read it to a friend.

I do the same thing in a group activity during guided reading with the “Fix it Sentences”

I model how to mix it and fix the sentence I dictate.  You have several fun options with this activity!

Mix it Fix it Group Style:

Give each student one card and 

have them repeat the sentence.

They make the sentence together then read it.  

Mix them up and do it again.

Mis it Fix it Individual Style: 

Give each student the whole sentence and have them fix it and read it.  You will need multiple copies of the colored sentences.  There are multiple choices so 

students can have a variety of sentences:

“I am a butterfly”...........“I am a robot”.

 What is missing?

Put the cards out in order of the sentence but leave out one word.  Have the students figure out the missing word.  

What does that word start with?  

Can you write it with your finger on the table?  

Can you spell it?

These are great ways to ENGAGE your 

students into reading sight words.

You can then have them take their cards and write the sentence on a white board or paper and draw a picture.

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