3 Steps to Success Training
for Reading Interventions

Reading intervention work can be frustrating! But with our 3 Steps to Success training, your class teams will see much better progress and save a lot of time.

Without exception, we have found teachers amazed by what we can share with them. The most common comment is “Why has nobody told us this before?”

This training is compatible with whatever phonics curriculum or intervention system you are using.

Funding is Available

In addition, various pots of funding are available:

England and Wales: The Inclusive Mainstream Fund
Northern Ireland: TPL Fund.
United States: Title II-A CPD funding or the IDEA funding.
Canada: PGFL and Individual state funds

3 Steps Structure

Step 1: A 60-minute team training session. This covers the causes of reading frustration and what the right intervention is for each cause.

Step 2: We will collaborate with you on assessing your first groups of students and creating Individual Intervention Plans (IIPs) for each of them. It takes around 15 minutes per student.

Step 3: We will guide you through implementing these IIPs over the next 12 weeks, to ensure a good catch-up path for each student using our Reading Copilot resources.

Just book a call to discuss it:

What you will learn

You will find you can answer all of these questions:

1 – What can you do when children keep skipping words?
2 – What can you do when children keep guessing words?
3 – What can you do for a child who cannot blend phonemes?
4 – Why reading practice often goes wrong at home?
5 – Why do some children keep looking away from the page?
6 – Why do some children find a page of text so much harder than single words?
7 – What can you do when a child reads fine, but has very low comprehension?

When you can answer those questions, it will save your team a tonne of time and frustration.

The Impact to Expect

You probably won’t believe what is possible when I tell you. But seeing is believing… Watch some of the videos below, to see individual examples.

We will expect an instant solution for around 30% of your struggling readers. Once the real cause of difficulty is identified, usually those students become functional readers during the assessment process.

The rest will need some short daily sessions with our Reading Copilot trainertext resources. Our expectation is an early rate of progress of around 8-12 months of progress per month of intervention, based on 10-15 minutes of group intervention per day.

Practical to Implement

The processes we recommend are very practical to deliver because an experienced TA can manage each 15-minute session for a group of 5-10 students, as they work independently in the trainertext library.

There may be one or two student who need more input within the group, but the average will still be 2-3 minutes of input per student per day, to see the gap closing fast.

We can give you a quick tour of the resources to see how they work.

What Teachers are Saying

Watch Some Transformations

Here are some videos to give you a feel for the sort of transformation that is possible, even after years of prior frustration.

Each video is a before and after view of their reading:

James, age 15:

Lowena, age 10:

Aria, age 10:

Age Appropriate

We have suitable formatting and suitable content for the full range of ages. That is critical for achieving good engagement.

Hands Free and Quick

The system is designed so that the student can do their daily sessions unassisted.

This is important for building their psychology of ability and autonomy.

It also means that a single teaching assistant can. monitor a group of 5-10 students doing the daily reading practice in just 10 minutes.

Holistic

There are three main reasons for persistent reading frustration:

1 – Visual Issues. Despite having passed an eye test, some students struggle with small text.
2 – Decoding Weakness. Despite years of phonics, some students keep guessing short words.
3 – Poor Comprehension. Some students can read accurately, but struggle with comprehension.

It is only when you deliver a solution to each and every difficulty a child has, that you can expect dramatic progress. Our Baseline Analytical Reading Test (BART) will deliver a clear review of exactly what is causing frustration for an individual child.

Evidence Based

You can check the results of the randomised control trial done by the Open University here. The cohort of 90 children were 2+ years behind and all caught up bar one within 6 months of trainertext intervention. You can read a summary here.

We have been delivering reading intervention processes since 2008 and have worked directly with over 15,000 reluctant readers and dyslexics.

We are always testing new techniques, but all the elements of our core processes have been tested many times. In our recent implementations with older students in the 11-13 age range, we have been seeing a year of reading age gain per month of intervention and sometimes much more.

Expert Supported

The process will be overseen by one of the team here, who is trained on the patterns of all nine potential causes of reading frustration that we track.

They are there to make sure you achieve the best and fastest results with all the interventions you are running. That will save you from wasted time and doubts about what is possible.

This also removes the need for lengthy training processes. You can get started right away.

Cost Effective

Our aim is for Reading Copilot to be practical to implement. So the staff costs are low and the financial costs are reasonable as well.

All of this will be much less than the ongoing costs of reading frustrations in the school.

Life Changing for Every Teacher and Student

The sad truth is that many of these students can begin to despair of being successful in school.

Sometimes that frustration can lead to deteriorating behaviour patterns, which impacts the daily experience of every teacher and student in the school.

When they break through to a strong level of functional reading, it often transforms them as individuals and improves everyone’s lives.

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