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Podcast: The Structured Literacy Podcast
Episode: Listener Favourites - Tier-Two Instruction That Hits The Mark.
Description: In this episode of the Structured Literacy podcast, Jocelyn addresses why Tier 2 intervention instruction often fails to produce results, identifying five critical issues: misalignment between Tier 1 and Tier 2 efforts, asking struggling students to learn double content from separate programs, weak Tier 1 instruction that creates too many intervention needs, unqualified staff delivering intervention, and removing students from support too early. Jocelyn emphasises that Tier 2 should provide "extra, not different" instruction (additional practice of the same systematic phonics content rather than a separate program) and argues that if schools have large numbers of Tier 2 students, they actually have a T...