Linda Dorn and Carla Soffos

Interventions That Work: Assisted Writing Group DVD

Celebrated literacy experts Linda Dorn and Carla Soffos guide teachers and administrators in implementing effective interventions in their newest series on reading intervention. Applying principles from their latest book, Interventions That Work: A Comprehensive Intervention Model for Reversing Reading Failure, their DVD series illustrates how teachers use data to implement research-based interventions -from kindergarten to eighth grade--that transform struggling students into successful readers and writers.

The interventions are part of the authors' Comprehensive Intervention Model (CIM), a design for preventing reading failure in the early grades and reversing reading failure in the upper grades. The DVD series provides training and support for teachers in learning about small groups as an intervention. Each of the DVDs--Guided Reading Plus Group (grades 1-3), Assisted Writing Group (kindergarten to grade 3), Comprehension Focus Group (grades 4-8), Content Strategy Group (grades 4-8), and A Comprehensive Assessment System for Literacy Improvement (grades K-8)--include two disks of classroom video and resources along with a facilitator's guide and can be used as a Response to Intervention method.

Linda Dorn is a Professor of Reading Education at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where she is Director of the Center for Literacy. She has over 25 years of teaching experience, including teaching at the elementary and intermediate levels. She has published numerous articles on literacy acquisition, and she has co-authored four professional books: Apprenticeship in Literacy: Transitions Across Reading and Writing; Scaffolding Young Writers: A Writing Workshop Approach; Shaping Literate Minds: Developing Self-Regulated Learners; and Teaching for Deep Comprehension: A Reading Workshop Approach (Stenhouse).

Carla Soffos is a literacy specialist with the Arkansas Department of Education. She has twenty-one years of experience in education, including teaching in the primary grades and Literacy Coaching. She is co-author of two books, Shaping Literate Minds and Scaffolding Young Writers, and three video series, Results That Last, Developing Independent Learners, and Organizing for Literacy. Soffos is currently completing degree requirements for an Educational Specialist in Reading, with a research focus on intervention programs in comprehensive literacy schools.

Interventions That Work: Assisted Writing Group DVD illustrates how teachers use data to implement research-based interventions --from kindergarten to eighth grade-that transform struggling students into successful readers and writers. Provided are small-group interventions based on the Comprehension for Intervention Model.

This two disk set includes:

60 minutes of video on DVD

Wealth of printable resources on CD-ROM

Classroom videos

Facilitator's guide

Can also be used as a Response to Intervention method