Intervention Appropriate

SPIRE
GRADES PreK–8+
RTI

Intensive Reading Intervention for Nonreaders and Struggling Readers

10 -Step Lesson
Overview
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10 -Step Lesson Overview
Each lesson in S.P.I.R.E.® follows a consistent 10-Step Lesson structure that employs multisensory
instruction. Systematic, sequentially structured lessons ensure mastery of concepts and allow for
easy implementation. Every concept covered has one Introductory Lesson and one or more
Reinforcing Lessons.
• Multisensory lessons include auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learning modalities
• Quick-paced, hands-on lessons keep students engaged
• Predictable lesson structure helps students focus on each new concept

Three options for flexible implementation!

S.P.I.R.E.® S.P.I.R.E.® iSPIRE®

Print Hybrid Online

Teachers and students work with Students work with print and Students work with online activities
print and manipulatives for a manipulatives, while teacher and manipulatives. All teacher
multisensory classroom experience. materials are online, allowing for materials are online allowing for
progress monitoring and reporting. real-time progress monitoring.

During the 10-Step Lesson, the teacher is always at the center of instruction. After Step 10 is complete, students
move on to independent work for practice and reinforcement.

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STEP PHONOGRAM CARDS
5 minutes

1 Concepts are introduced and reviewed with a Key Word Concept Sheet and
Phonogram and Word Cards.

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sh ship /sh/
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p p pat /p/

Phonogram Cards

Key Word Concept Sheet, Level 1

Word Cards

Hybrid & Online

KEY

Auditory

Visual

Phonogram Card

Kinesthetic
Key Word Concept, Level 1

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STEP PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS
5 minutes

2 A wide variety of activities—many oral in nature—are designed to develop students’

ability to hold sounds in their minds. Students work on Rhyme Providing and
Categorization, Sound Providing, Categorization and Identification, Blending, and
Segmentation through Counting, Deletion, and Substitution.

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KEY

Phoneme Segmentation Phoneme Segmentation

Auditory

Phoneme Segmentation
White circles represent consonant sounds and green circles represent vowels. Students sound out
Visual words and bring down circles to stand for each sound they hear. As students progress, they use blue
rectangles to represent syllables.

Kinesthetic

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STEP WORD BUILDING
5 minutes

3 Students build and manipulate words using color-coded letter tiles. S.P.I.R.E.® uses
consistent color-coding across components to help students differentiate between
different types of phonograms.

Print & Hybrid

Magnet
Board and
Letter Tiles

Online

Letter Tiles

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STEP DECODING AND SENTENCE READING
10 minutes

4 Introductory Lesson: Students work on a concept word list and are taught to
underline, link, and box letter or letter combinations. They also divide syllables.
Reinforcing Lesson: Students read words and sentences, developing
vocabulary and comprehension.

Print & Hybrid

Level 3
Hybrid

KEY
Online
Auditory

Visual

Kinesthetic
Level 3

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STEP PREREADING
5 minutes

5 Introductory Lesson: The teacher leads students in a phoneme-grapheme

analysis of one word containing the lesson concept.
Reinforcing Lesson: The teacher leads students in a phoneme-grapheme analysis
of one word from the reading passage. The passage they are about to read is
introduced and the teacher helps students build background and activate
prior knowledge.

Print

Teacher Edition,
Level 4

Hybrid
&
Online

Teacher Script,
Level 4

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STEP READING AND READING COMPREHENSION
15 minutes

6 Introductory Lesson: Students utilize a Word Find Sheet to identify and

read new concept words.
Reinforcing Lesson: Students read fiction and nonfiction texts, applying the
newly introduced concept and developing comprehension skills.

Print & Hybrid

Word Find Sheet, Level 4 Hybrid Passage, Level 5 Hybrid

Online

Word Find, Level 4 Passage, Level 4

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STEP SOUND DICTATION
2 minutes

7 Ten sounds are dictated, and students say and write all known letter combinations for
those sounds. Then students read back all ten sounds, naming the letters and giving
the sounds.

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Dictation Paper Dictation Paper

Levels 1–2 Levels 3+

STEP PRESPELLING (ORAL ACTIVITY)

3 minutes

8 The first word to be spelled in Step 9 is orally analyzed for its phoneme-grapheme
relationships. This activity is completely auditory.

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Auditory

Visual

Teacher
Edition,
Teacher Script, Level 3 Kinesthetic
Level 3

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STEP SPELLING
5 minutes

9 Words are dictated to the students. Students spell words as they name
letters and sound out the words. After all ten words are written, they read the words
again, starting at the beginning.

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Dictation Paper Dictation Paper

Levels 1–2 Levels 3+

STEP SENTENCE DICTATION

5 minutes

10 Students say and write sentences systematically, proofread, and make corrections
with teacher guidance. In this culminating activity, students apply the new concept in
writing to build the connection from reading to writing.

KEY Print & Hybrid & Online

Auditory

Visual

Kinesthetic Dictation Paper Dictation Paper

Levels 1–2 Levels 3+

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Independent Work
Concepts are reinforced through Workbook activities, reading Illustrated Decodable Readers,
or writing sentences using new concepts.

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Valley Forge, Level 6

S.P.I.R.E. Illustrated
Decodable Readers

Level 2 Hybrid

Online

Valley Forge, Level 6

Illustrated Decodable Readers

Activity, Level 4

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 SPIRE Professional Development
ACHIEVE RESULTS!
Reach struggling readers through intensive intervention

S.P.I.R.E.’s
Author
Sheila Clark-Edmands,
M.S.Ed., developed
S.P.I.R.E. based on her
extensive experience
working with struggling
and nonreaders over
the past 30 years. Her
experience includes
teaching, administration,
and educational
consulting and her work
has been featured in
the Wall Street Journal.
Sheila is an Orton-
Gillingham Fellow and
studied under Alice
Garside and Dr. Edwin
Cole at Massachusetts
Our team will work with your school or district to develop
the appropriate training and support plan to ensure “ The S.P.I.R.E. training
that we had in our district
General Hospital. ongoing success with S.P.I.R.E.® was exceptional. The training
Let us partner with you to help you: was thorough, organized,
and helpful. Our trainer was
• Place your at-risk students
personable and professional.
• Deliver explicit and systematic instruction Because she teaches S.P.I.R.E.
• Tailor instruction to student need in her district, our teachers
• Monitor student progress as they become skilled readers benefited significantly from her
valuable knowledge base and
expertise. Even with a month
For more information of instruction, we have seen
contact Professional Development
at 800-288-6754 x 3246
growth in our students.

—Dana Work
”
or visit eps.schoolspecialty.com/PD RTI Intervention Team Coordinator
Bradley County, Tennessee

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