Teaching · Reading Intervention

Same skill, same time, small enough to teach.

List each student with the skill they most need, how accurate they are on it, and when they can come. The summary sorts them into candidate groups, splits any that are too big, and shows who does not fit yet.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Reading Intervention toolkit, $49 for 34 items.

The grouping plan

One record per plan. Students are listed by code, never by name. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Reading Intervention$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
For each grouping cycle, every student with skill, accuracy and slot, candidate groups within your size limit, and a list of conflicts to resolve.
Who it is for
Reading interventionists, reading specialists, MTSS coordinators and special education teachers who schedule small-group intervention.
Format
Browser form. Several saved plans (one per cycle or grade); printed with the summary or as a blank planning sheet; CSV of the student table; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Reading Intervention toolkit ($49) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Reading Intervention space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
still to place
Drawn for this page. Good groups share a skill and a time; the student who fits neither is the one to plan for first.

How to use it

  1. Start a plan with a short code and the date.
  2. Set the largest group and the accuracy spread you accept, and name the slots.
  3. Add each student by code with the skill most needed, recent accuracy and slot.
  4. Read the candidate groups and the conflicts.
  5. Adjust slots or skills, and regroup at the next data check.

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What the plan is for

Grouping by need

Small groups work best when students share the skill they need next, so one lesson fits everyone. Intensive intervention groups are usually small, often three to five. Grouping is temporary: progress data every few weeks should move students between groups.

Reading the flags

A wide accuracy spread inside a group means one lesson may be too easy for some and too hard for others. A student alone in a skill and slot may join a nearby skill group or need another time. These are prompts for a decision, not the decision.

What this organizer is not

It does not place students in intervention or decide services. Students are identified by code; keep the key to codes in your school’s records system.

Sources

  1. Gersten, R., and others (2008). Assisting Students Struggling with Reading: Response to Intervention and Multi-Tier Intervention in the Primary Grades (NCEE 2009-4045). What Works Clearinghouse practice guide (small homogeneous groups, regrouping on progress data).
  2. National Center on Intensive Intervention, American Institutes for Research: guidance on intervention group size and data-based individualization.
  3. Vaughn, S., Linan-Thompson, S., Kouzekanani, K., and others (2003). Reading instruction grouping for students with reading difficulties. Remedial and Special Education, 24(5), 301 to 315.
  4. Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 34 CFR Part 99.

The example students are made up and listed by code. The plan suggests groups; teachers decide them. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.