How to Structure Elementary Literacy Intervention
What if one small change to your literacy intervention lessons could help students better use and apply the skills you're already teaching?
You’re probably already targeting:
Phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and maybe even writing.
But then you ask your students to read a passage, and suddenly they're struggling to use the very skills you just practiced.
In this free, on-demand training, I'll walk you through how I structure an evidence-based literacy lesson to help students apply and generalize reading and writing strategies.
Bring one of your current lessons and, using our Structured Literacy Intervention Checklist, identify one adjustment you can make to help your students bring those literacy skills together.
REGISTER FREE → WATCH THE TRAINING
(and get a Structured Literacy PD certificate)
If you’ve ever wondered, “Why can my student read these words during our phonics lesson but not when they encounter them in a passage?”
Or maybe you’ve found that your students progress through intervention nicely, but then struggle as soon as the intervention support is removed.
If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone.
And one of the first things I look at is whether students have enough opportunities to connect and apply the skills we're teaching throughout their literacy lessons.
Here's what we see all the time...
You're teaching all the right skills. You've followed the research. You've added the vocabulary instruction, layered in writing, found the phonics program, did the fluency work. Every individual piece is research-aligned.
And still… students aren’t using those skills independently.
Sometimes what's missing isn't another skill. It's the connection between the skills we're already teaching.
Explicit instruction in individual literacy skills is important. But students also need opportunities to connect and apply those skills in meaningful reading and writing. That's why the structure of our intervention lessons becomes so important.
In this training, you'll:
→ See how we structure a connected literacy lesson that helps students actually apply and generalize the skills they’re learning
→ Evaluate the connection between your current literacy intervention lessons to determine if any adjustments may be helpful
→ Understand how a connected structure will help support both student growth and sustainable lesson planning (because nobody’s got endless planning time!)
How it Works
Who this training is for
This training is built for educators who:
→ Work with elementary students (K-6) in a Tier 2 or Tier 3 intervention setting
→ Are teaching the literacy skills, but are not always seeing students applying those skills independently
→ Have students who seem to do well with support, but then struggle when that support is removed
→ Are building lessons that are research-aligned, but aren’t seeing results that reflect all the effort or are starting to question the sustainability of their lesson planning process.
Hey there, I'm Corey
I'm the founder of Ascend SMARTER Intervention, and I've spent over 20 years working directly with students, from research and clinical settings to classrooms and intervention rooms.
Early in my career, I was doing what I thought I was supposed to do: teaching all the right skills, using the right materials, checking the right boxes. Most of my students made growth. But when some of those students came back to me a few years later, I realized a lot of the growth I had helped my students achieve wasn't sticking the way I expected, which was so frustrating given all the effort my students and I had put in.
The issue wasn't what I was teaching. It was that the skills weren't connected. That moment changed how I think about literacy intervention, and it's what I share in this training.
If you haven’t signed up yet, maybe you’re still wondering:
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The training is one hour, on-demand. Watch in one sitting or break it into shorter chunks, whatever fits your schedule.
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If you've done structured literacy training, you've likely learned the components. This training is about how those components connect, the structural piece most training skips, and the piece that determines whether your students retain and transfer what you're teaching.
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No. This training is about the structure of effective intervention, not a specific curriculum. You can start applying the principles to your existing instruction immediately.
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This training is built specifically for educators working with K-6 students in intervention settings (Tier 2 / Tier 3). It's also applicable for general education teachers running small-group instruction, but the focus is on intervention-level instruction.
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Yes. You'll receive a 1-hour PD certificate when you complete the short quiz following the training.
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If you’re new to us, you’ll get an email with login information. If you already have a login, simply log in to your dashboard and watch anytime.
Ready to take a closer look at your own literacy intervention lessons?
Bring one of your current lessons to this free training. I'll show you how I structure connected literacy instruction with my own students, and you'll get the Structured Literacy Intervention Checklist to help you identify one adjustment worth making in your own instruction.
Free. On-demand. Watch anytime. Includes the Structured Literacy Intervention Checklist + 1-hour PD certificate.
