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The Comprehensive Intervention Model (CIM) is a well-coordinated, Response to Intervention seamless design for providing intervention services to struggling readers. The CIM is a systemic model for reversing the reading failures of struggling readers through layered interventions, including differentiated classroom instruction and supplemental interventions in small groups or one-to-one. The goal is two-fold. In grades K-3 the goal is to increase the overall literacy achievement by the end of the third grade and to reduce the number of children identified with learning disabilities within 1.5% or less of the general population. In grades 4-6, interventions focus on research-based strategies for reading and writing in the content areas.
The system goal of the CIM is to change the achievement profile of a school by providing:
- research-based interventions that increase the literacy levels of low-performing children, and
- training and professional development for teachers that increase their knowledge and expertise in teaching the lowest performing children.
