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Early Literacy Intervention Resources

We are dedicated to providing teachers with access to information about effective instructional practices. Students in the EdD in Educational Policy and Leadership whose concentration is early literacy intervention created these videos to model instructional practices aligned to the science of reading research base. In these vidoes, our students model the practices with their own students and describe how and whenÌýto use the strategy.

Please click below to go to the set of videos for each topic.

  1. Phonemic Awareness

  2. Spelling

  3. Decoding

  4. Multisyllabic Word Decoding

  5. Reading Fluency

  6. Vocabulary

  7. Syntax and Writing

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Phonemic Awareness: Articulation of Similar Phonemes

5:19

This video demonstrates how to address student confusion when articulating similar phonemes using multisensory techniques.

Phonemic Awareness: Consonant Blends

7:34

This video demonstrates a strategy to teach students how to segment and blend words with consonant blends. This strategy is appropriate for students who are able to segment three phoneme words.Ìý

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Phonemic Awareness: Isolation of Initial Phonemes

8:10

Isolating initial phonemes can be challenging for some beginning readers. This video demonstrates how students can learn to isolate the initial phoneme by stretching sounds.

Phonemic Awareness: Articulation of Similar Phonemes t/d

6:30

The instructor demonstrates how phonemes represent graphemes using a word chaining or "switch it" activity to connect phonemes to graphemes. Anchor the sound to the letter to give students a concrete way to understand how phonemes are distict within a word.Ìý

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Phonemic Awareness: Segmenting Words with Phonemes

4:50

Students learning to segment words may benefit from additional instruction when they are having difficulty. This video demonstrates how to teach students to segment using manipulatives.

Phonemic Awareness: Uneven Skills and Lack of Automaticity

5:30

In this clip, the teacher demonstrates how to use Elkonin boxes to assist students as they work to blend words with three phonemes. This lesson is appropriate for students that are able to isolate at least two phonemes.Ìý

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Spelling: Spelling Irregular Words

9:10

This lesson demonstrates a technique to help students learn to spell irregular words. This lesson is appropriate for students who spell words phonetically.

Spelling: Spelling Multisyllable Words

7:23

This video demonstrates a technique that can be used to teach the spelling of multisyllabic words using morphemes. This lesson supports vocabulary and language development.

Spelling: Analyzing Spelling Errors

7:53

This lesson addresses student errors when spelling. Reviewing previously misspelled words is beneficial as students work toward recalling how to spell words correctly.

Decoding: Blending VC & CVC

9:32

This lesson demonstrates a technique that can be used to support beginning readers blend 2 and 3 phoneme words.

Decoding: Teaching VCE

6:22

This video demonstrates a strategy to help students read VCe words more efficiently. This lesson is appropriate for students who have mastered CVC words.

Decoding: Vowel Teams

6:25

This lesson demonstrates an introduction to teaching students vowel teams. In this video, the students will underline the vowels to remind them that the vowel teams represent one sound.

Decoding: Correcting Oral Reading Errors for Early Readers

7:49

This lesson demonstrates a technique teachers can utlize when students make an error when reading a passage aloud.

Decoding: Decodable Text Selection

4:46

This video discusses how to pick a text that is decodable for beginning readers.

Decoding: Breaking the Guessing Habit

6:20

It is important that students use their literacy skills to decode words. This lesson shares how we can move students from guessing what words are in front of them and move towards encouraging students to read exactly what is written in the text.

Decoding: Transferring Skills

9:07

This video is helpful if students are successful at reading words in isolation but have difficulty transferring these skills to text. This demonstration includes transferring skills strategies with words progressing to reading in phrases & sentences.

Multisyllabic Word Decoding: R-controlled Vowels

10:05

This video will demonstrate how to teach r-controlled syllables. This lesson is appropriate for students that have learned open and closed syllables and are ready to begin learning about additional syllable types.

Multisyllabic Word Decoding: Syllable Types; CLE

11:58

The purpose of this video is to demonstrate an activity educators can use when teaching the c-le syllable type.

Multisyllabic Word Decoding: Peeling off Morphemes

6:11

This clip demonstrates a strategy to help students break longer words into smaller, more manageable parts. This strategy is useful when supporting students with their knowledge of prefixes, base words and suffixes.

Multisyllabic Word Decoding: Two Closed Syllable Game

7:07

This video demonstrates a game to help reinforce the skills needed to decode multisyllabic words. This game can be played with students who have been introduced to and can read some multisyllabic words comprised of closed syllables.

Reading Fluency: Phrase-cued Text

8:05

This video demonstrates a way to use phrase-cued texts within needs based small groups.

Reading Fluency: Repeated Reading with Purpose

6:21

This video uses Reader's Theatre to demonstrate reading with prosody. This type of activity can be used to conduct repeated readings with a purpose.

Vocabulary: Explicit Introduction of Words Protocol

9:20

In this video, the educator utilizes techniques to support emergent bilingual students in understanding the meaning of vocabulary words.

Vocabulary: Frayer Model

8:21

Designed to support emergent bilingual students, this lesson utilizes the Frayer model to support student vocabulary development.

Vocabulary: Frayer Model

12:38

This lesson demonstrates the use of the Frayer Model. This instructional practice can be used to build vocabulary depth.

Vocabulary: Semantic Gradient

10:01

This lesson was developed to support emergent bilingual students develop a deeper understanding of vocabulary words through a semantic gradient activity.

Syntax and Writing: Sentence Construction

6:34

Students learning to write basic sentences may need guidance when working to increase the complexity of their sentences. This video demonstrates the fiveÌýfinger techinque to help students expand their sentences.

Syntax and Writing: Sentence Expansion

9:11

As students learn to write complete sentences, additional support may be needed to encourage sentence expansion. This lesson demonstrates a tecnique to help students write more complex sentences.

Syntax and Writing: Combining Sentences

8:15

This lesson, designed for emergent bilingual students, guides students through the process of combining simple sentences.

Syntax and Writing: Two-syllable Writing

11:14

This clip demonstrates the chunking strategy. The goal of this demonstration lesson is to teach students a strategy to encode two-syllable words.

Syntax and Writing: Brainstorming

13:14

In this clip, a teacher walks students through the process of brainstorming. This is helpful to get students to contextualize the importance of planning prior to writing.

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