. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 2.

Published in final edited form as: Psychol Sci. 2013 Jun 19;24(8):1408–1419. doi: 10.1177/0956797612472204

Table 2.

Examples of the Four Dimensions of Literacy Instruction in the Individualizing Student Instruction (ISI) Reading Intervention

Content dimension	Management dimension
Content dimension	Teacher-child managed	Child managed
Code focused	The teacher is working with a small group of students at the table. The children are learning how to use prefixes and suffixes to decode multisyllabic words.	Working individually and in pairs, students are completing spelling activities from their core reading curriculum, including phonics rules.
Meaning focused	The teacher is discussing a book with a small group of students. Each student takes a turn discussion the main ideas and why characters acted the way they did.	Students are reading books in the library corner.

Note: Examples are from the second-grade intervention.