Present Literacy Intervention

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In today's educational realm, we use the word intervention to define the process of assessing students who struggle in reading and using that assessment to provide specific instruction designed for that student in or out of the classroom. But, in the past, the term was coined as remediation. Struggling readers were placed in different categories based on their reading difficulty, which required a specific type of instruction. This was often called, "medical model." This model allowed educators to categorize and pinpoint the foundation with the problem, which would have a distinct technique to use for remediation. The two categories were learning disabled and poor readers, and both of these categories needed specific separate instruction and educators. But, research based studies have found that these two categories necessarily do not necessarily need separate instructional techniques based on their category. Studies have also shown that the factor affecting poor reading skills isn't …show more content…
The present literacy intervention entails a focuses more on meaningful reading. RTI and one-to-one interventions all resemble the most commonly used intervention structure, which is the pull-out model. Within the pull-out model, students are separated from the classroom to receive their individualized or sometimes small group interventions. But, this type of struggle causes a disadvantage to some students who need more intervention, because they are being ostracized from their peers making the student feel "different." There are two different models that have helped improve the intervention structure within a traditional classroom. These projects and/or programs have targeted in the alienation of ability grouping in first grade and the development of fluency. Both of these models have implemented a success rate within literacy