Reading Intervention Plan

Student: JJ Duncan

Date: 12/7

Goal: The student will be able to read a passage acknowledging punctuation and pausing at the
correct areas or periods, commas, and other marks with 80% accuracy per passage.

Rationale: JJ will benefit from this strategy because it is a hands-on/visual activity. He has
expressed that he is a visual learner, therefore I tried to create a strategy dealing with punctuation
where he would have a hands on/visual model. He struggles with stopping at punctuation and
slurs sentences together when reading. This strategy emphasizes the importance of
acknowledging punctuation.

Pennsylvania State Core Standard(s)

Standard - CC.1.4.8.R- Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of
standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.

Steps of Explicit Instruction:

-I will give JJ cards that I have created and cut out with a punctuation mark (period, comma,
exclamation point, question mark) on each one.
-I will have a passage that I will read out loud to JJ using expression/pausing/etc.
-Each time I read a sentence and either pause, use a question mark, or exclamation point, he will
place down the card with the punctuation that he thinks that I just used.
-I will keep reading until JJ lays down a card that is incorrect. If he lays down an incorrect card, I
will ask him to listen to me reread the sentence again and try to lay down a different card. I will
then explain the correct answer to him and why.

Assessment:
After doing the activity with JJ, I will give him a copy of the passage that I have just read to him
missing the punctuation marks. I will have him fill in the punctuation marks in the passage (that
we just reviewed) to assess his knowledge.

Reflection:
JJ expressed that he enjoyed the strategy because it felt like a game. I feel as though he benefited
from being able to physically hold the cards I gave him and lay them down when I was done
reading each sentence out loud. One aspect that I would change about this strategy is
administering a different passage to assess him after the activity. Since we had just read the
passage and gone over all of the correct punctuation, the assessment was not as challenging to
him as it could have been.