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Comprehensive LLI Sampler
The Comprehensive LLI Sampler contains the following:
Mini Sampler / Annotated Lesson Walkthrough
Intensive and Systematic Intervention to Help Struggling Readers
LLI is a supplementary intervention system designed to help teachers provide powerful, daily, small-group instruction for the lowest achieving children in the early grades.
This document contains a two-day sample teaching sequence from the LLI Orange System:
- Lesson 57 (an example of an odd-numbered lesson) focuses on four key areas: Rereading Books from previous days, Phonics/Word Work, introducing a New Book at the students’ instructional level, and Letter/Work Work.
- Lesson 58 (an example of an even-numbered lesson) focuses on four key areas: Rereading Books and Assessment, Phonics/Word Work, Writing about Reading, and the introduction of a New Book at the students’ independent level.
- Level C Guided Reading Continuum: There is a guided reading continuum at the end of each level, outlining the behaviors and understandings to notice, teach, and support in your lessons on each level.
- Recording Form: Reading Records for odd-numbered books are administered the following day in even-numbered lessons, after children have been introduced to them.
Mini Sampler / Annotated Lesson Walkthrough
For a close up look at the samples lessons, new books, continuum and recording forms in this mini sampler, click here.
Teaching Within the Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) System
LLI lessons include reading, writing, phonics, and word study and the extensive use of oral language throughout. There are three types of lesson structures in the program. The first ten lessons in the Orange System are called Getting Started. The Getting Started lessons follow the same format and engage children in five instructional activities: (1) Rereading, (2) Phonics, (3) Reading a New Book with several levels of support, (4) Writing about Reading, and (5) Letter/Word Work (See Fig. 1).
Lessons 11-70 include six pages of teaching support. As indicated in Fig. 2, there are two lesson structures. One is used in the odd-numbered lessons; the other in the even-numbered lessons. Both structures provide important information for preparation, planning, understanding of the new text, supporting English language learners, connections to the classroom and home as well as professional development.
Using the Lesson Guide
 
The Lesson Guide Volumes 1 & 2, includes all the lessons as well as an introduction to the program that will help you prepare materials you will use throughout the lessons. At end of each 10-lesson sequence, the Guided Reading Continuum for the level provides a set of specific behaviors to notice, teach, and support in your lessons. An introductory Letter to Parents can be printed from the Lesson Resources CD in English or Spanish and sent home.
Fig. 1. Getting Started Lessons
Suggested times
for 30-minute lessons |
5 minutes |
5 minutes |
8 minutes |
7 minutes |
5 minutes |
| Lessons 1–10 |
Rereading Books* |
Phonemic Awareness/
Phonics |
New Book (lap book & small books) |
Writing About Reading |
Letter/Word Work |
*In the first lesson, find any text children have read and can reread or skip this component.
Fig. 2. Odd-numbered & Even-numbered Lessons
| Suggested times for30-minute lessons |
5 minutes |
5 minutes |
15 minutes |
5 minutes |
If time allows |
| Odd-numbered Lessons |
Rereading Books |
Phonics/Word Work |
New Book (instructional
level writing) |
letter/Word Work |
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| Even-numbered Lessons |
Rereading and Assessment |
Phonics/Word Work |
Writing |
New Book (easier level) |
Optional Letter/Word Work |
The structure provides for a smooth, well-paced 30-minute lesson that will become very comfortable for you. The children also benefit from the predictability of the lesson and learn the routines quickly.
Sample Lessons
Lesson 57
Lesson 57 focuses on four key areas: Rereading Books from previous days, Phonics/Word Work, introducing a new book at the students’ instructional level, and Letter/Word Work.
Lesson 57
New Book for Lesson 57: A Visit from Aunt Bee (Level C, fiction)
Lesson 58
Lesson 58 focuses on 4 key areas: Rereading Books and Assessment days, Phonics/Word Work, Writing About Reading, and the introduction of a new book at the students’ independent level.
Lesson 58
New Book for Lesson 58: Birds (Level A, nonfiction)
Level C Continuum
There is continuum at the end of each level that you will want to refer to as you teach the 10-lesson sequence at the level. It includes the behaviors and understandings to notice, teach, and support in your lessons on each level.
Level C Continuum
Recording Form: A Visit from Aunt Bee
Rereading books and assessment are critical in identifying teaching points that are most helpful to the student. Recording Forms are used for taking Reading Records. Reading Records for odd-numbered books are administered the following day in even-numbered lessons, after children have been introduced to them. For example, the Reading Record for A Visit from Aunt Bee is administered in Lesson 58.
Recording From
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