The Next Step Forward in Reading Intervention: The RISE Framework

Literacy intervention should be swift and powerful―and this approach by Jan Richardson and Ellen Lewis provides fast results! After only 6-8 weeks of intervention, students can gain the confidence, proficiency, and skills they need to excel as readers and exit intervention! Based on Jan's bestselling The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading, this companion volume is intended to be used together in order to best implement the RISE framework. The Next Step Forward in Reading Intervention offers intensive, short-term, targeted instruction in reading, writing, word study, and comprehension. It's a step-by-step handbook for literacy teachers, literacy coaches, and reading specialists who are looking for a proven reading invention program that really works.

Literacy intervention should be swift and powerful―and this approach by Jan Richardson and Ellen Lewis provides fast results!

Based on lessons from Jan Richardson's bestselling The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading, the RISE framework oers intensive, short-term targeted instruction in reading comprehension, phonics and word study, and writing.

Rise Grades 1-5, Levels C-N

• Improves comprehension, decoding, spelling, fluency, writing, and retelling.• Students read and reread a book to build comprehension, and engage in word study and guided writing.• Implemented 45–60 minutes a day for 6–8 weeks.• Field-testing shows the average lift from RISE is one text level every two weeks!

Rise Grades 3-8, Levels O-Z

• Solution for upper-grade students who struggle with comprehension.• Students practice diŸerent comprehension strategies on the same short text.• Implemented for 45 minutes a day for 6–8 weeks.• Field-testing shows students made 5.5 months' progress after 6–8 weeks!

Ellen Lewis, M.Ed., is a reading teacher, Reading Recovery teacher, and literacy consultant with more than three decades of literacy teaching experience. She is the author of the NSFGR Study Guide, as well as several children's books.

Jan Richardson, Ph.D., is an educational consultant who has trained thousands of teachers and provided classroom demonstrations on guided reading. Dr. Richardson is the best-selling author of The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading (Scholastic) and coauthor of Next Step Guided Reading Assessment (Scholastic). A former teacher, she has taught in every grade, K–12. She has been a reading specialist, a Reading Recovery teacher leader, and a staff developer.