The Intervention Express

The Intervention Express toolkit is a comprehension resource kit to support the teaching of oral language, reading and writing skills for students with language and literacy difficulties. The Intervention Express can be used by teachers, speech pathologists, and trained education assistants.

The toolkit uses an explicit teaching approach to address vocabulary, language comprehension and written expression skills.

The Intervention Express pack includes:

• a comprehensive easy to follow User's Guide that explains each strategy in detail

• scripted explicit lesson examples for teaching concepts and skills related to oral language, reading and writing

• 2x A4 write-on wipe-off Learning Intention and Success Criteria posters

• Decoding Bookmark

• Oral Reading Fluency Bookmark

• Vocabulary Knowledge Rating Scale

• 2x differentiated Word Detective Checklists for teaching word solving

• Break It Up Prompt Card for morphological analysis

• 3-Step Approach to Learning New Words poster

• 7-Step Approach to Learning New Words poster

• 2x A4 write-on wipe-off POSSUM Word Mats

• 2x A4 write-on wipe-off differentiated Word Ladder templates

• 2x A4 write-on wipe-off differentiated Tap It-Map It-Zap It boards

• 13x palm-sized narrative macrostructure icons

• 11x palm-sized persuasive macrostructure icons

• Editing checklists