Posted by www.interventioninventory.com on 4/19/09

www.interventioninventory.com

Technology has undoubtedly changed the face of education
and our daily lives forever. With Weather.com you can view
your local weather instantly, Youtube allows you to view
previously distant videos of nearly any topic, and what
quicker way is there to find out the name of the blank page
before the title page in a book than the oft-visited
Google? (It’s a fly page by the way.) With all of the
immediate access to information now made available because
of the worldwide web, where can an educator go to get
hundreds of research-based instructional strategies within
a few clicks?

The emerging answer is the Intervention Inventory at
www.interventioninventory.com.

With the Intervention Inventory teachers are able to browse
all of the Florida Center for Reading Research
interventions, resources from ReadWriteThink.org,
strategies from various pieces of professional literature,
and lessons from numerous other compiled sources. The
beauty of the Intervention Inventory is its ability to
quickly and easily refine a large number of interventions
into a desired few in a matter of seconds. Whether you
would like to view by the "Fab Five," grade level, or
sub-area of the content, you can then refine the number of
results by a combination of search criteria including
intervention name, description key words, content specific
areas of focus, and source.

Let’s say for instance you are a first grade teacher who
has a child that is having a particularly difficult time
with decoding/encoding long vowels as witnessed by running
records, writing samples, and other curriculum-based
measures. You recall from the student’s interest inventory
that he cherishes the time he spends playing cards with his
grandparents on the weekend. The next logical step is to
utilize this information to guide the
assessment/intervention cycle with a sound instructional
technique that will yield results. Simply guide your web
browser www.interventioninventory.com, focus on the phonics
interventions while selecting first grade and search for
vowels in the description area, and you now have limited
hundreds of interventions into a manageable few. Here you
can quickly view a closed vowel sort, an online picture
match game, or even a go-fish activity. You’ve found a
perfect match in that the go-fish game focuses both on the
focus area of vowels and his love of card games!

Perhaps the most unique aspect of the Intervention
Inventory is its incorporation of the ability for teachers
to upload their own intervention ideas to create a dynamic
fund of knowledge. Educators can upload their intervention
into the broad areas of phonemic awareness, phonics,
vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, writing, and
miscellaneous interventions. The ability for personal
submission of instructional techniques provides the
opportunity for seasoned professionals to create a
virtually boundless source of intervention information.

With no user names or passwords required, the Intervention
Inventory is available for use completely free of charge.
Not part of the technologically elite? The intervention
Inventory utilizes a user-friendly interface that is
accommodating to even those with limited technological
fluency. Today is the day to get started and become a part
of the professional collaborative community!

www.interventioninventory.com

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