Resource Repository

This toolkit provides activities and resources to assist practitioners in designing and delivering intensive interventions in reading and mathematics for K-12 students with significant learning difficulties and disabilities. It is based on the Center on Instruction's Intensive Interventions for Students Struggling in Reading and Mathematics: A Practice Guide.

Listen to Dr. Deshler explain why some adolescents struggle with reading and the need for reliable student assessments and qualified specialists to provide intensive and individualized interventions. He also discusses why schoolwide teacher collaboration across content areas is essential for improving outcomes for struggling readers.

Read this handbook to learn how support students with dyslexia within an RTI or MTSS framework

This practice brief provides schools, districts, and states with background knowledge about best practices for older students who struggle to read.

This module provides materials and support that link the available research to improved teacher practice in improving literacy skills of older students.

Read presentation slides summarizing ways to enhance phonological awareness instruction in core reading contexts.

This module, the second in a series of three, discusses implementing an evidence-based practice or program with fidelity (est. completion time: 1 hour).

This module, the third in a series of three, examines how to evaluate whether an evidence-based practice is effective for the young children or students with whom you are working (est. completion time: 2 hours). Consider completing parts one and two before beginning this resource.

In this video, Drs. Naomi Rahn and Sharon Vaughn discuss evidence-based practices to improve language and literacy outcomes for children.

Watch an interview with Dr. Marcia Invernizzi about characteristics of high-quality tutoring experiences and tutors, and what to do if you child is not making progress.