Teaching · Reading Intervention

Every group its minutes.
No one in two places.

An intervention schedule has to give every group the minutes it needs without booking one person in two rooms. Enter each group’s interventionist, size, weekly target and sessions. The calendar adds each group’s minutes, finds clashes across groups and flags groups that are short of time, too large or meeting in sessions too short to get much done.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Reading Intervention toolkit, $49 for 42 items.

Groups

The worked example is made up: a group of four that meets every day, a group of six booked over it on two mornings and a one-to-one student 30 minutes short. Saved on this device only.

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What you get

Teaching · Reading Intervention$19 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
A record per group: code, interventionist initials, group size, target minutes and, per weekly session, day, start time, minutes and room, with notes. Works out minutes a week against the target and finds clashes where one interventionist is booked in two groups at once; flags short weeks, groups over five students, sessions under 20 minutes and overlapping sessions within a group.
Who it is for
Reading specialists, intervention coordinators, special education teachers and school leaders who schedule reading intervention.
Format
Browser scheduler with a saved record per group. Prints one group, every group in a table or a blank schedule; downloads a spreadsheet (.csv); exports and imports a file.
Access
$19 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 access, an order or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.

How to use it

  1. Add each group and its interventionist.
  2. Set the minutes each group needs a week.
  3. Add the sessions with day, time and room.
  4. Read the clashes in the side panel.
  5. Fix short weeks before the schedule goes out.

Schedule a group

Building the schedule

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Group size and weekly minutes are two of the strongest levers a schedule controls.

Group size

Research on small-group reading intervention has mostly used groups of about three to five students, with smaller groups or one-to-one work for students who need the most intensive support. The flag at more than five is a prompt to look, not a rule; your school or program may set its own.

For any program

The calendar schedules any reading intervention: a published program, a district model or your own lessons. It holds group codes and initials only, never student names. Caveat is not affiliated with any program publisher.

Sources

  1. Gersten, R., et al. (2009). Assisting Students Struggling with Reading: Response to Intervention and Multi-Tier Intervention in the Primary Grades (NCEE 2009-4045). Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse.
  2. Fuchs, L. S., Fuchs, D., and Malone, A. S. (2017). The taxonomy of intervention intensity. Teaching Exceptional Children, 50(1), 35–43.
  3. Vaughn, S., Linan-Thompson, S., Kouzekanani, K., Bryant, D. P., Dickson, S., and Blozis, S. A. (2003). Reading instruction grouping for students with reading difficulties. Remedial and Special Education, 24(5), 301–315.
  4. International Dyslexia Association. Structured literacy: an introductory guide (dyslexiaida.org).

The worked example is made up. Group sizes and minutes follow your school’s or program’s guidance. Nothing you type is sent to Caveat. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.