Same Curriculum. Different Intensity.
The Intervention Pantry™ is not a supplemental add-on. It is Flavorful Foundations® at intervention intensity, built to the same instructional standards, carrying the same curriculum DNA, and grounded in the same Science of Reading research as the core program. A student in intervention is not in a different program. They are in the same system, working harder on specific skills.
Every student who completes the Flavor Gauge™ screener receives scores across four sections covering the major literacy domains. Those scores route students to Shelves 1 through 4 based on where they fall below threshold. Shelf 6 routes from Section 1 at the floor level, when the data indicates a phonological awareness deficit rather than a phonics gap. Shelf 5 is accessed through teacher referral, not the screener. Students placed in Story Version C receive full Pantry placement. Students in Story Versions A or B are routed only to the shelves where their scores indicate a targeted need.
The result is a precision intervention system, not a blanket pull-out program. Every student gets exactly what they need, and nothing they do not.
The Same DNA Runs Through Everything.
Every design decision in the Intervention Pantry™ mirrors Flavorful Foundations® core instruction. Students who move between Tier 1 and intervention never feel the shift. The vocabulary is familiar. The discussion structure is familiar. The cultural themes are familiar. That continuity is not incidental. It is the instructional design.
Passages feature diverse characters, authentic community settings, and cross-cultural perspectives. Students see themselves in the texts, not as an afterthought, but as the design standard.
Every lesson sequence builds on what came before. Skills are revisited, reinforced, and extended throughout the shelf. Nothing is taught once and abandoned. Mastery compounds.
Intervention students do not just complete worksheets. They engage in structured academic dialogue using the same Socratic questioning model as core instruction. Language builds through talk, not silence.
Passages and lessons pull from science, social studies, history, and the arts. Intervention builds background knowledge while targeting specific literacy skills. Two things at once, every lesson.
Every passage comes in three versions: Support, Core, and Bridge. Teachers meet students at their actual reading level while delivering grade-specific skill instruction. The skill is grade-calibrated. The text flexes to the reader.
No implicit instruction. No discovery learning. No context-clue strategies substituting for decoding. Every lesson names the skill, models it, practices it, and confirms it before moving on.
On Tri-Level Text in Intervention
Most intervention materials give struggling readers one text at one level. Flavorful Foundations® gives them grade-specific skill instruction with text that actually meets them where they are. A Grade 5 student reading two years below grade level receives a passage calibrated to their reading level while the lesson itself targets Grade 5 skill expectations. That combination is rare in intervention design, and it is built into every lesson in this series.
The Flavor Gauge™ Routes Students In.
The Flavor Gauge™ is the literacy screener that drives Intervention Pantry™ placement. Administered three times per year at Beginning of Year, Middle of Year, and End of Year, each administration produces section scores that determine which shelves a student needs and which story version they read in core instruction.
| Section | What It Measures | Trigger | Routes To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Section 1: Ingredient Check | Phonics, decoding, and morphology | 2 of 5 correct | Phonemic Flavor Shelf™ (Shelf 2) |
| Section 1: Ingredient Check (Floor) | Phonological awareness as the root cause of decoding failure | 0 to 1 of 5 correct | Rhythm & Blend™ (Shelf 6). A score at the floor signals that the spoken language foundation beneath phonics was never built. Phonics instruction will not take hold until that layer is addressed first. |
| Section 2: Fluency Probe | Oral reading fluency, WCPM and accuracy | Below grade-level WCPM benchmark | Fluency Fixings™ (Shelf 1) |
| Section 3: The Pour | Reading comprehension | Fewer than 2 of 3 correct | Comprehension Cupboard™ (Shelf 3) |
| Section 4: Flavor Notes | Academic vocabulary and language | Fewer than 2 of 3 correct | Seasoning Bar™ (Shelf 4) |
| Writing Whisk Station™ (Shelf 5) | Written language mechanics and sentence-level syntax | Teacher referral only | Not screener-routed. Teachers refer students based on observed written language deficits. |
Story Placement (Sections 1, 3, and 4. 11 Points Total)
- Story Version A (Bridge): 9 to 11 points. Advanced. Targeted by section score only.
- Story Version B (Core): 6 to 8 points. On Level. Targeted by section score only.
- Story Version C (Support): 0 to 5 points. Full Intervention Pantry™ placement.
The Flavor Gauge™ is a parallel-form screener with three different administrations using three different passages and items, escalating in complexity across the year. Every administration produces fresh data so teachers and administrators can track growth, adjust placements, and confirm that intervention is closing the gap.
Every Gap Has a Shelf. Every Grade Has a Book.
Each shelf targets a distinct literacy domain with explicit, systematic, cumulative, and spiral instruction. Every shelf carries the same curriculum DNA as Flavorful Foundations® core: culturally themed passages, Socratic discussion, cross-curricular content, and tri-level text. Nothing in the Intervention Pantry™ is generic, guesswork-based, or disconnected from the curriculum students already know.
Fluency Fixings™
Oral reading fluency intervention. Targets word recognition automaticity, accurate decoding under fluency conditions, and prosody. Culturally themed narrative and informational passages at 50/50 balance across tri-level text versions. Uses timed repeated reading, partner reading, and performance reading formats.
- Screener trigger: Fluency Probe WCPM below grade-level benchmark
- Explicit instruction with no round-robin or cold calling
- Progress monitoring built into every lesson
Phonemic Flavor Shelf™
Phonics and decoding intervention: systematic, explicit, and cumulative. Grade 3 through 5 books target phonics patterns and syllable types. Grade 6 through 8 books target multisyllabic word attack and morphological analysis. Grades 9 to 10 and 11 to 12 books target etymology and disciplinary decoding. No context clues as a decoding strategy, ever.
- Screener trigger: Ingredient Check score below threshold
- Lessons build on each other in a locked, cumulative sequence
- Culturally themed decodable and instructional texts at every level
Comprehension Cupboard™
Reading comprehension intervention grounded in the Simple View of Reading and Scarborough's Reading Rope. Targets background knowledge activation, inference, text structure, main idea, and summarization as the language comprehension strand of reading. Cross-curricular passages span science, social studies, history, and the arts. Socratic discussion in every lesson.
- Screener trigger: The Pour score below threshold
- Explicit strategy instruction with gradual release model
- Spiral design: comprehension strategies revisited and deepened across the lesson sequence
Seasoning Bar™
Oral language and academic vocabulary intervention grounded in Beck, McKeown, and Kucan's Tier 2 framework. Direct, explicit, cumulative instruction, not incidental exposure. Builds the academic language students need to access complex text across all content areas. Rich structured discussion, not just definition recall.
- Screener trigger: Flavor Notes score below threshold
- Tier 2 academic vocabulary: cross-disciplinary, high-utility words taught in context
- Socratic vocabulary discussion in every lesson: students use words, not just define them
Writing Whisk Station™
Written language mechanics intervention addressing the reading-writing connection gap most publishers do not address. Targets sentence syntax, sentence combining, and grammatical structure as a comprehension lever. Students who cannot parse complex sentences cannot comprehend complex text. Distinct from Spice & Sprinkles®, which handles writing process in core instruction.
- Teacher referral only, not screener-routed
- Strict referral protocol and exclusion criteria in every book's front matter
- Tri-level sentence-level texts: grade-calibrated, not generic grammar exercises
Rhythm & Blend™
Intervention targeting the spoken language layer beneath phonics: phoneme blending, segmenting, manipulation, rhyme, and onset-rime. Phonological awareness is distinct from phonics. A student can fail at the phonological level before print is ever introduced, and phonics instruction will not stick until that foundation is in place. This shelf is primarily a Grades 3 to 5 concern. When a student in Grades 6 to 12 scores at the floor of the Ingredient Check, Rhythm & Blend™ is still the correct placement.
- Screener trigger: Ingredient Check score of 0 to 1 of 5 correct
- Primary population: Grades 3 to 5 struggling decoders
- Secondary population: Grades 6 to 12 students with unresolved foundational gaps
- Auditory-first design in early lessons with spiral integration of print
Eight Books. One Continuous System.
The Intervention Pantry™ is a series of 8 grade-level books covering Grade 3 through Grade 8, plus Grades 9 to 10 and Grades 11 to 12. Each book is fully calibrated to the reading demands, vocabulary load, and skill expectations of students at that specific grade. The curriculum identity including cultural themes, spiral design, and Socratic discussion is consistent across every book in the series.
| Book | Decoding Focus (Shelf 2) | Text Complexity | Approx. Lexile Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | Phonics patterns, CVC/CVCe, vowel teams, r-controlled vowels | Early transitional reader | ~520 to 740L |
| Grade 4 | Syllable types, multisyllabic words, prefixes and suffixes | Transitional reader | ~740 to 940L |
| Grade 5 | Advanced syllabication, derivational morphology | Upper elementary | ~830 to 1010L |
| Grade 6 | Greek and Latin roots, academic morphology | Early middle school | ~925 to 1070L |
| Grade 7 | Advanced roots, discipline-specific vocabulary families | Middle school | ~970 to 1120L |
| Grade 8 | Word families, semantic precision, connotation and denotation | Upper middle school | ~1010 to 1185L |
| Grades 9 to 10 | Etymology, disciplinary decoding, academic register | Early high school | ~1080 to 1260L |
| Grades 11 to 12 | Advanced etymology, argument and persuasion vocabulary | College-ready text | ~1185 to 1385L |
Every Lesson in Every Book Includes
- Explicit instructional objective: stated clearly at the start so students and teachers always know the target skill
- Spiral learning design: every lesson revisits and builds on prior skills so mastery compounds across the shelf
- Culturally themed and responsive passages: diverse characters, authentic settings, and cross-curricular content spanning science, social studies, history, and the arts
- Tri-level differentiated text: Support, Core, and Bridge versions of every passage
- Socratic discussion: structured academic dialogue built into comprehension and vocabulary work
- Direct vocabulary instruction: every lesson, every shelf, every grade level
- Structured practice with gradual release: teacher modeling first, guided practice, then independent application
- Progress monitoring exit task: confirms skill acquisition before the lesson sequence advances
- Print lesson document plus Digital Kitchen™ companion file: every lesson, ready for both delivery formats from day one
Intervention That Never Leaves the Curriculum.
This is the argument that separates Flavorful Foundations® from any program that requires a separate intervention purchase.
Districts that adopt Flavorful Foundations® get a Tier 1 curriculum strong enough to reduce the number of students who need intervention in the first place, and an intervention series built to the same standards for the students who do. The Flavor Gauge™ screener drives placement three times per year. The Intervention Pantry™ delivers the instruction. The Digital Kitchen™ tracks progress. The teacher never has to leave the FF framework to serve any student at any level.
Students in intervention are not in a different program. They are in the same system at a different intensity. The cultural themes are the same. The Socratic discussion structure is the same. The vocabulary frameworks are the same. The spiral design is the same. Students who move between Tier 1 and intervention do not start over. They stay inside a system they already know, working harder on the specific skills that need the most attention.
For districts comparing FF to programs that require separate RTI/MTSS purchases or supplemental intervention contracts, the Intervention Pantry™ is a direct budget argument: one curriculum, one screener, one intervention series, one vendor relationship.
Buy One Book. Buy the Series. License the District.
The Intervention Pantry™ is designed to flex to any budget and any adoption model. Individual teachers can purchase the grade-level book they need. Schools and afterschool programs can bundle the full series. Districts can license systemwide. Every path gets the same 90-lesson, 6-shelf system.
Single Grade-Level Book
One teacher. One grade. One complete intervention toolkit. Six shelves, 90 lessons, fully calibrated to that grade's skill expectations.
- Available for each grade: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 to 10, and 11 to 12
- Print book, digital download, or both
- Includes all 6 shelves and 90 lessons
- Progress monitoring tools included
Digital Kitchen™ companion is a separate add-on for individual purchases.
Request InfoFull 8-Book Series
The complete Intervention Pantry™ series: all 8 grade-level books, all 6 shelves, all 720 lessons. Ideal for afterschool programs, intervention departments, and multi-grade instructional teams.
- All 8 books: Grades 3 to 8, 9 to 10, and 11 to 12
- Print, digital, or both
- Digital Kitchen™ companion available as bundle add-on
- Volume pricing applied
Best fit for afterschool programs, intervention coaches, and instructional leadership teams.
Request a QuoteSystemwide Adoption
A site or district license covers all Intervention Pantry™ books across buildings, with Digital Kitchen™ integration, professional development, and ongoing support included.
- Unlimited teacher access within licensed buildings
- Digital Kitchen™ companion included
- Onboarding PD and implementation support
- Annual screener data reporting tools
Custom pricing based on school count and grade levels adopted. Pairs with Flavorful Foundations® district adoption.
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