Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI)

Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) is a short-term, small-group, supplemental literacy intervention system designed for students in kindergarten through second grade who struggle with literacy. The goal of LLI is to provide intensive support to help these early learners quickly achieve grade-level competency. Students meet in small groups (ideally three students) for daily 30-minute lessons, and the intervention lasts a maximum of 18 weeks. LLI emphasizes systematic and explicit instruction in phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, comprehension, and the expansion of oral language skills, including vocabulary. The system uses leveled texts of progressing difficulty measured by the Fountas & Pinnell Text Level Gradient. Teachers selected to be LLI teachers receive eight days of professional development focused on how to implement the LLI instructional program, along with the necessary LLI materials and a detailed teaching guide.