Reading Superheroes

English Reading Intervention for Reluctant Readers – Highly Visual, Confidence-Building Sessions (37 Original Resources plus planning and tracking sheets)

This engaging English intervention pack is designed specifically for reluctant readers and learners who need accessible, confidence-building literacy support. The focus is not just on reading skills, but on helping students feel successful, capable and motivated when working with words and texts.

Each session begins with a highly visual PowerPoint quiz using original, engaging images to bring vocabulary and ideas to life. These interactive quizzes encourage students to actively participate as they identify book characters, words, rhymes, syllables, and other literacy challenges. The visual format helps reduce reading barriers and keeps learners focused and motivated.

The quizzes are fully accessible and easy to deliver, making them ideal for:

• 1:1 intervention
• Small group literacy support
• Whole-class starters or intervention sessions

Following the quiz, students complete a short independent task that reinforces the learning from the activity. These tasks are designed to be clear, manageable and achievable, allowing learners to practise their skills independently and experience success. The tasks are deliberately short and focused, helping maintain engagement while giving students the opportunity to produce work they can feel proud of and receive praise for.

While the sessions develop key reading and vocabulary skills, the wider aim is to build confidence with texts. By using a range of fun, varied and accessible activities, students begin to see that reading, exploring words and responding to texts can be enjoyable. Over time, this helps transform reluctant readers into more engaged, curious and confident learners.

Skills and Learning Areas Covered

The sessions provide broad coverage of essential literacy skills, including:

• Reading comprehension and responding to short texts
• Understanding books, genres and simple text features
• Developing vocabulary through rhymes, word patterns and word meanings
• Word structure and spelling patterns, including syllables, compound words and silent letters
• Exploring tricky vocabulary, such as homophones and homographs
• Building spelling confidence, including common exception words
• Understanding how words work, including acronyms, initials and word relationships
• Developing inference and reasoning skills
• Supported writing tasks using scaffolds such as word banks and writing frames
• Exploring vocabulary for different purposes and contexts

This flexible intervention resource is ideal for KS2, KS3, SEND learners, intervention groups, or students working at Entry Level, offering an engaging way to strengthen literacy skills while building positive reading habits.