Lessons

LCNA Intervention lessons follow a systematic pattern to help children build their skills in both reading and writing. Unlike one-size-fits-all literacy programs, intervention lessons are focused on each child’s unique needs, wasting no valuable lesson time on what the child already knows or isn’t yet ready to learn.

Daily lessons for struggling students are essential. Missed lessons minimize the potential of the intervention outcome. For students who have difficulty remembering from day to day, the teacher can act as a memory of yesterday’s responses and can prompt the child accordingly. Daily lessons allow the teacher to closely attend to the daily shifts in the child’s progress.

Individual one-to-one instruction is essential for acceleration, offering the dedicated support that helps struggling students catch up with their peers. Individualized lessons are the most efficient—and often the only—way to give these lowest-achieving children the skills and knowledge they need to succeed. Rather than use a commercially prescribed instructional program, highly trained intervention teachers diagnose, analyze, and design daily lessons that are specifically tailored to follow the child’s unique learning process.

The learning opportunities provided must draw on the strengths this child has already demonstrated and relate to his new learning needs. Through careful observation of behaviors, abilities, and processes, as well as systematic records of what children can do and can almost do, teachers can make better decisions about next steps for instruction. By teaching through student strengths and supporting what they can almost do, they are building the foundations for learning more complex topics.

Children who have fallen behind their peers have to progress faster than their classmates if we want them to catch up. This rate of progress is referred to as acceleration — increasing the rate of progress. LCNA interventions support acceleration through one-to-one teaching, lessons that build on each child’s strengths, reading and writing of continuous text, and an expert teacher who designs individualized lessons, all over 12 to 20 weeks.

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