Helping students master literacy skills is only part of the equation—the real goal is getting those skills to stick and show up across subjects, settings, and tasks. In this post, we explore how to help students generalize their reading and writing skills beyond isolated lessons. You'll learn how to bridge the gap between instruction and application using strategies that promote transfer, increase engagement, and build confidence. Whether you're working in Tier 1, Tier 2, or Tier 3, these tools will help students take what they’ve learned and apply it meaningfully in other areas of their academic and everyday lives.

One of the biggest problems we’ve seen over the years is that many students receive solid, research-based intervention, they learn the skills but then are unable to take those skills they’ve learned in the context of a structured and systematic approach and apply it to what they need to be doing in the classroom. They are unable to apply to their classroom reading assignments, their classroom writing assignments.

If you have been keeping up with our blogs, you will know that all this month we are talking about ways we can help cement strategies for our students who just aren't getting it.  If you are new to our blog, welcome! You can catch up on our last two posts here: 3 Ways to Generalize Skills Learned in Isolation and Is it Just My Kids, Or...

This month we are going to be talking about ways to cement stragies used during intervention. The tough part about this is that typically our students are at all different levels, and so many of these strategies need to be differentiated or scaffolded based on student ability.

A lot of our families ask how we can generalize the skills their children learn in an intervention setting into the home, and even the classroom, instead of just practicing them in isolation.