Once educators identify where reading is breaking down for a striving reader, they can better match instruction and intervention to the areas that need the most attention. Some students need support strengthening foundational literacy skills. Others need help tackling longer multisyllabic words and academic vocabulary. Still others can decode accurately and read fluently but require targeted support to make meaning from complex text.
The key is matching support to students’ current functional reading abilities and their most urgent literacy needs.
Students who have not yet developed accurate, automatic decoding abilities typically benefit from explicit, systematic Structured Literacy instruction grounded in the Orton-Gillingham approach.
Tier 3 & Special Education | Grades K-8+
SPIRE Up is a blended, Structured Literacy intervention that combines teacher-led instruction with online practice and embedded assessment. Grounded in Orton-Gillingham methods, it helps students build foundational skills while streamlining progress monitoring and instructional decision-making for teachers. This intensive intervention is used in Tier 3 and special education settings with students in grades K-8 and beyond.
Tier 2 | Grades 3-5 & 6-8
Reading Accelerator is an evidence-based Structured Literacy intervention that helps striving readers in elementary and middle school close foundational skill gaps through teacher-led instruction and independent practice in whole-class and small-group settings.
Some students can decode basic text but continue to struggle with longer, more complex words that become increasingly common across content areas. Morphology instruction can help students unlock meaning, improve word recognition and fluency, and increase academic vocabulary.
Tier 2 | Grades 4-12
Megawords, Levels 1-2 provides explicit, systematic instruction in morphology and multisyllabic word reading, preparing students for increasingly advanced vocabulary and text. Can be used alongside SPIRE 4E (Levels 3-4).
Tier 2 | Grades 4-12
Megawords, Levels 3-8 delivers advanced study of morphology, roots, affixes, and academic vocabulary for students who decode accurately but continue to struggle with longer multisyllabic words and complex, content-area text. Can be used alongside SPIRE 4E (Levels 5-6).
Students whose word recognition is strong may still need support understanding increasingly complex text, analyzing ideas, and expressing their thinking in writing.
Tier 2 & 3 | Grades 3 -12
SPIRE Next is a comprehension-focused intervention that develops close reading, critical thinking, written response skills, and genre-specific comprehension strategies while students engage with increasingly complex text.
Learn more about using the SPIRE Literacy Suite to drive literacy transformation in your school or district.