Intervention Strategy for struggling readers

Within our school systems we have students whose needs are not being met. Some are ashamed and others masked these needs by disruptive behavior. We as teachers have to have intervention strategies to help our struggling students to become striving students. “Early intervention and quality instruction are the key to help struggling students become successful”. A lot of intervention strategies that are used in our schools are ineffective, and the only way we as teachers have to know the right strategy is to work and reflect on the needs of students who are struggling. Within our school I have noticed that the schools has employed remedial teachers in the area of Maths and English to work along with the content area teacher so that students who are struggling are pulled out by the remedial teacher and worked with separately from the class. I asked one of the teachers if this method was effective and she said to me that “children are now learning to understand what is being taught you cannot reach everyone but there are those who are trying”.


Intervention strategy should reflect a comprehensive approach to reading and writing”. An article I was reading suggest instead of teachers looking at specific problems and fix them we should take a holistic approach to the problem. I quote from the article “instruction in the processes of reading and writing (e.g. word recognition, comprehension strategies, vocabulary, fluency) ought to help facilitate student engagement and understanding with real texts”.(Fisher, Ivery.2005)

Effective intervention can make a difference in our student’s lives. It can make them become striving readers who are given every opportunity to learn. We as teachers have to know our students and also know the type of intervention that is needed. We do not know every strategy there is to know but with collaboration with our colleagues we can try different methods until we come to the one that works best for our students. Teachers have to be dedicated, willing to go all out for our students so that in the end they can be the best they can be.