I use a variety of resources for literacy intervention. The Barton Reading & Spelling System—an Orton Gillingham-inspired approach—is the foundation of my intervention. If it is determined that a student struggles with auditory discrimination, memory, and sequencing, we start with the pre-reading program Foundations in Sound. I also use phonological awareness drills to improve sound discrimination and manipulation, a foundational reading skill. I supplement my instruction with games, books, and other activities. These interventions are appropriate for students ages five all the way up to adult.

Occasionally, I determine that a student may not need the intensity of an Orton Gillingham approach. Perhaps the student needs help with fluency and comprehension or moving from second to third-grade level text. In these cases, I use Next Steps, a reading intervention used by the University of Utah Reading Clinic, as well as the Rewards program for reading multi-syllabic words. We also work with fluency and comprehension to move a student from learning to read to reading to learn.