What It Is:
The Literacy Support Team (LST) assists all elementary sites in achieving the district goal of every student becoming a proficient reader by 3rd grade. The LST members work with K, 1st, and 2nd grades to provide explicit, systematic instruction to small groups of 2-4 students targeting specific skills. The LST team members run approximately 5-6 intervention rounds for each classroom they serve throughout the year. Students are pre-tested, receive intervention, and post-tested at the end of each session to monitor progress and plan for next steps.

Who Attends:
Below Basic Students that are showing below basic acquisition of grade level literacy skills.

When Instruction Occurs:
The interventions are held 5 days a week during the hours 8:30-11:30. The team member works with groups of up to 4 students from each classroom for no more than 30 minutes per class (this includes travel time).

All grade levels may choose from the following menu of skills.  

• Letter Names and Sounds

• CVC (short a, e, i ,o, u)

• Blends (l, r and s blend)

• Digraphs (ck, ch, sh, th, wh)

• CVCe (long a, i ,o, u)

• Vowel Teams #1 (ai/ay, oa, igh/y, ew/ue, au/aw,oi/oy)

• Vowel Teams #2 (ea, ie, oo, ou, ow)

The program supports struggling readers with the foundational reading skill including phonemic awareness, phonics and word reading (decoding), high frequency words, dictation (encoding), and fluency.