Push In

Versus
Pull Out
Reading
Intervention
Katie Bell

A student
who fails to
learn to read
adequately
in the first
grade has a
90 percent
probability of
remaining a
poor reader
by Grade 4
and a 75
percent
probability of
being a poor
reader in high

Why this is a current topic:

I am one of 20+ reading/math specialists at our school
Returned to Title 1 funding this year after two years off
of it
Only 56% of our students are proficient in their
assessment performance
This lead to a need for intervention in every classroom
School put majority of funding into specialists, we
needed the most effective way to reach our students:
push in or pull out?

Push In:
-Tutor, specialist or volunteer will go into the students classroom
and have intervention lessons in the classroom with the teacher
present

Class
distractions
Close to the
teacher
CONS
No supply
space
PROS

Get to know the whole class

Close to the teacher

Dont have to prep an intervention space

TYPE OF CHILD
Can concentrate in a busy
environment
Not that far below grade level

Pull Out:
-Tutor, specialist or volunteer will pull students from class and
take them to a separate room other than the classroom to
have intervention lessons
PROS
TYPE OF CHILD

Travel time
from

classrooms
Not close to a
teacher

CONS

No big distractions

Quiet environment

All supplies in one space

Can manage intervention your own way

Easily distracted
Consistently far below grade
level

Factors:
Our
students
futures are
all but
determine
d by how
well they
learn to
read.

What do your administrators lean towards?

How involved do the teachers want to be in the intervention
process?
What designated intervention areas are in the school building?
How is the intervention going to be managed?
My school chose the pull-out method
There was enough space for all of us to have intervention areas
Teachers wanted separation between intervention time and class time
for students

Sources:
Mathes, Patricia. "The Case for Early Intervention in Reading."
McGraw Hill. Web. 10 Nov. 2015.
"Philo T. Farnsworth School in West Valley City, Utah." Philo T.
Farnsworth
School in West Valley City, Utah. Web. 10 Nov.
2015.
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