Celebrated literacy experts Linda Dorn and Carla Soffos guide teachers and administrators in implementing effective response to intervention plans in their newest series on reading intervention. Applying principles from their latest book,InterventionsThat Work: A Comprehensive Intervention Model for Reversing Reading Failure, their five-set DVD series illustrates how teachers use data to implement research-based interventions -from kindergarten to eighth gradethat transform struggling students into successful readers and writers.

Linda Dorn is a Professor of Reading Education at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where she is Director of the Center for Literacy. She has over 25 years of teaching experience, including teaching at the elementary and intermediate levels. She has published numerous articles on literacy acquisition, and she has co-authored four professional books: Apprenticeship in Literacy: Transitions Across Reading and Writing; Scaffolding Young Writers: A Writing Workshop Approach; Shaping Literate Minds: Developing Self-Regulated Learners; and Teaching for Deep Comprehension: A Reading Workshop Approach (Stenhouse).

  

Carla Soffos is a literacy specialist with the Arkansas Department of Education. She has twenty-one years of experience in education, including teaching in the primary grades and Literacy Coaching. She is co-author of two books, Shaping Literate Minds and Scaffolding Young Writers, and three video series, Results That Last, Developing Independent Learners, and Organizing for Literacy. Soffos is currently completing degree requirements for an Educational Specialist in Reading, with a research focus on intervention programs in comprehensive literacy schools.

Disk One features

1. Facilitators’ Guide
2. Power Point Presentation slides
3. Guide Sheet of lesson components
4. Blank planner, Preparing for the Phases
5. Blank planner, Phases One, Two, and Three
6. Filled-out planner, Preparing for the Phases
7. Filled-out planner, Phases One, Two, and Three
8. Text Map/Writing Guide
9. Mentor texts for personal narrative

Disk Two features Comprehension Focus Group lessons in reading and writing based on

a unit of study for personal narrative texts. This disk is divided into four chapters:

1. Prepare for Reading Phase
2. Reading Phase
3. Prepare for Writing Phase
4. Writing Phase