Reading Intervention Plan

Student: JJ Duncan

Date: 11/5

Goal: When presented with a passage at instructional level, the student will be able to highlight
important words, underline the main idea, identify something they have a question about, circle
unknown words, and star interesting information.

Rationale: After administering the QRI passages to JJ, he struggled with the comprehension
questions I asked him after each passage. He would benefit from more practice with reading
comprehension strategies, therefore this strategy is appropriate for him to improve. This is a
visual reading comprehension strategy that will help JJ learn how to identify key elements of a
text.

Pennsylvania State Core Standard(s)

CC.1.2.3.A Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they
support the main idea.

Steps of Explicit Instruction:

-I will provide JJ with a printed out visual of “close reading symbols” such as “highlight important
words, underline the main idea, identify something you have a question about, circle unknown
words, and star interesting information.”, a highlighter, and a copy of the passage.
-I will explain to him that we are going to read the passage provided together. I will read the
passage out loud and he will follow along.
-His job is to highlight important words, underline the main idea, identify something he has a
question about, circle unknown words, and star interesting information. It is okay if he only does
two or three of these, as long as he is trying to follow along with the story.
-Once I have finished reading out loud, I will give him time to go back and add anything that he
wants to or might have missed to highlight/underline/circle to his passage.
-After he is finished, we will review everything that he marked down in the passage. I will ask JJ
to explain to me what he marked in the passage and why.

Assessment:
The assessment portion of this strategy is for me to look over the passage that JJ has marked
up and see if he is getting the idea of understanding important details of the passage by
questioning him.

Reflection:
JJ did a great job with this strategy. He was able to pick out key components while I was reading
the passage out loud and explain to me why he highlighted the elements that he did. I think that

this is an effective strategy that he will be able to use in future classes and can be applied to all
subject areas when reading informational text.