BLAST intervention ... Set up for success!
BLAST
Intervention Support
and
BLAST Training
Intervention support will help ensure student success.
Some important topics to consider:
Literacy
Instruction
A shared understanding of reading development, literacy terms, and best practices makes intervention teaching more consistent and effective.
Intervention Support
Intervention organizers will benefit from being supported
in assessing and placing students, assigning staff, and tracking student progress.
BLAST
Toolkit Lessons
Teachers and support staff
will benefit from a review of toolkit contents along with best practices for effective intervention teaching.
BLAST training answers common questions such as:
What is a phoneme? How is it different from a grapheme?
Why didn't these kids learn
this when I taught it in class?
What is Phonological Awareness?
And why is it so important?
What does rhyming have to
do with reading?
Why do kids sound out a word
and then say a different word?
What's the difference between a
digraph and a blend?
How can a word have only 3
sounds when it has 5 letters?
Why isn't learning letters
and letter sounds enough?
BLAST training is customized to suit your staff needs, covering topics such as:
LITERACY LEARNING
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Phonological and Phonemic Awareness / Phonics skill instruction What is it? Why is it important? How do we teach it?
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Why do some students need intervention? / Best practices for effective intervention
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BLAST TRAINING​
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Review all components of the BLAST intervention toolkits including lesson plans, word sorts, games, writing, and instructional tools
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Highlight the main teaching points in each of the toolkits, potential student challenges, and model Phonological Awareness and Phonemic Awareness visual tools and cues
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Demonstrate lesson pacing and techniques for the most effective teaching of each lesson element
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Review the BLAST assessment, work with staff to promote consistent administration, and assist in recording student data
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Develop and share organizational tools to suit the needs of the school such as data collection, student progress tracking, student attendance, etc.
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Record assessment results and help to identify trends, strengths, and individual testing results
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Facilitate staff participation in the placement of students into BLAST groups to start the intervention using the data collected with the assessment tool.
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Ongoing staff support answering questions that come from teaching toolkit lessons and help in re-grouping students after lessons and re-assessments are compete
