Designing an Integrated Literacy Intervention System for Districts

As district leaders seek to support striving readers effectively, many find themselves overwhelmed by a fragmented landscape of literacy intervention programs. Piecing together multiple, disconnected solutions often results in inconsistencies in instruction, redundant and excessive costs, and an unsustainable burden on educators.  

EPS Learning’s comprehensive suite of literacy solutions, including its flagship SPIRE reading intervention program, offers districts an integrated, research-based reading intervention system that optimizes student success, aligns to districts’ budgetary and achievement goals, and promotes educator satisfaction. 

Overcoming a Patchwork Approach to Literacy Intervention 

As district leaders know, students across grades and tiers have diverse literacy needs. Students who have not yet crossed the decoding threshold require targeted intervention that includes explicit, systematic phonics and decoding and encoding instruction—this builds the accurate, automatic word recognition needed to access and comprehend text. Other students benefit from focused fluency-building support, while others still are ready for advanced word study, vocabulary expansion, or comprehension development. In most cases, districts and schools have assembled an array of disparate intervention programs over time—some for targeted Tier 2 intervention, others for intensive Tier 3 support, and additional programs for students with dyslexia or special education needs.  

This patchwork approach is often frustrating for educators who must learn and implement multiple programs from different providers, each with its own methodologies and implementation requirements. It also results in inefficient resource allocation and unnecessarily complicated professional development and educator support efforts. Furthermore, a disparate array of literacy intervention solutions makes it challenging for districts to realize their vision for a student-centered, teacher-friendly approach to Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) or Response to Intervention (RTI). 

SPIRE Literacy Suite: An Integrated Intervention System 

The SPIRE Literacy Suite helps districts meet the diverse needs of their striving readers while upholding instructional alignment, strategic resource allocation, and educator satisfaction. This all-in-one approach to addressing literacy intervention effectively delivers: 

• Cohesive Support Across Grades and Tiers: Our suite of solutions seamlessly fits into Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3, and special education settings. 
• Structured Literacy: All students benefit from literacy instruction and intervention that addresses all five pillars of reading through the evidence-based Structured Literacy approach.  
• Orton-Gillingham (OG)-Based Intervention: Student learning is strengthened by multisensory OG-based intervention that is easy to deliver for teachers and paraeducators, even those with no prior experience teaching reading. 
• Dyslexia-Focused Intervention: Dyslexia screening combined with multisensory, OG-based Structured Literacy instruction in SPIRE and other programs enable educators to identify at-risk students and meet their learning needs both before and after a formal dyslexia diagnosis. 
• A Targeted, Efficient Solution for Upper Elementary and Middle School Students Who Have Not Yet Crossed the Decoding Threshold: EPS Learning’s Reading Accelerator program delivers teacher-led Structured Literacy intervention and personalized reading practice, equipping striving readers with the foundational skills and automatic word recognition needed to become proficient. 
• Digital Integration for Assessment and Practice: Online solutions for automated assessment and personalized practice ensure teachers can easily track progress and measure growth while students get the practice required to master skills. 
• Alignment with MTSS/RTI Frameworks: The SPIRE Literacy Suite fully supports Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) and Response to Intervention (RTI) frameworks, making it an adaptable, flexible choice for district-wide literacy initiatives. 

Maximizing Impact While Optimizing Budget and Educator Satisfaction 

For districts operating under tight budgets, EPS Learning’s solutions provide measurable returns on investment by reducing the need for multiple literacy intervention purchases, maximizing professional development resources, and promoting educator satisfaction through effectiveness and ease of use.  

By partnering with EPS Learning to address literacy intervention in a comprehensive, integrated manner across grades and tiers, districts can enjoy: 

• Proven Student Outcomes:  EPS Learning's research-based solutions, including SPIRE for intensive Tier 3 and special education intervention, have consistently led to measurable, lasting literacy gains, setting students on their paths to long-term academic success. 
• Strategic, Consultative Partnership: With decades of experience partnering with district leaders and educators, EPS Learning ensures districts invest in the right interventions to achieve meaningful literacy growth, all while optimizing budgetary resources and addressing students’ specific needs across grades and tiers. 
• Streamlined Professional Development: Implementing solutions within a single, comprehensive system eliminates the inefficiencies of training staff on multiple disconnected programs. This reduces costs and ensures instructional consistency. 

A Practical Framework for Evaluating Literacy Intervention Solutions 

As districts consider the best literacy intervention system for their needs, decision makers can refer to key criteria within the following evaluation matrix: 

By choosing EPS Learning, district leaders can move beyond fragmented intervention strategies and implement a cohesive, research-backed system that delivers lasting literacy success for all striving readers.