Let's Know!2: Language-focused Intervention for Children at Risk of Comprehension Difficulties

Let's Know! is an 22-week intervention spanning 1 school year. Each week features 4-5, 30 minute lessons targeting lower-level and higher-level language skills. There are 2 narrative and 2 expository units. Within units, instructors and children progress through specific types of lessons to meet language-focused learning objectives. Lesson types include (a) Read to Me, designed to engage children with text and promote discussion, inferential language, and comprehension monitoring, (b) Words to Know, designed to unit vocabulary, (c) Integration, to teach and practice retelling, inferencing and comprehension monitoring (d) Show Me What You Know, instructors administer CAMs to monitor children's progress and (e) Stretch and Review, to provide teachers time to review key concepts. Included in the lessons are practice opportunities for students to collaborate with peers with teacher guidance and feedback. A manual provides scope of instruction, teaching strategies, lessons and materials.