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title: 'Video: Inside a reading intervention'
description: How do schools help struggling readers? Get an inside look at effective reading interventions. See multisensory reading strategies in action.
slug: video-inside-a-reading-intervention
author: The Understood Team
published: '2019-08-05T16:00:31.864Z'
thumbnail: https://cdn-images.understood.org/p0qf7j048i0q/3C3A9587E595496F8582175088C252F0/3bcd90b3247fe435cea3405eb4e28b0a/032219_Video_Inside_a_Reading_Intervention.jpg
source_url: https://www.understood.org/en/articles/video-inside-a-reading-intervention
lang: en
---

# Video: Inside a reading intervention

What helps struggling students learn how to read? Step inside two public school classrooms to see what effective reading [interventions](https://www.understood.org/en/articles/instructional-intervention-what-you-need-to-know) look like for grade-schoolers and middle-schoolers. Margie Gillis, president of Literacy How, explains key concepts — such as why [multisensory reading instruction](https://www.understood.org/en/articles/multisensory-instruction-what-you-need-to-know) helps kids with [dyslexia](https://www.understood.org/en/articles/what-is-dyslexia).

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