ERIK is an intervention program focussed on reading in the early years of schooling.
It is made up of two parts: an assessment profile and a series of teaching pathways.
The assessment profile describes the student’s knowledge in a range of psycholinguistic and cognitive areas necessary for learning to read. The student’s performance on the assessment profile is used to determine an appropriate intervention pathway to meet the student’s needs.
The Teaching Pathways offers three intervention options:
Each intervention pathway consists of up to 60 lessons, and is taught in 30-45 minute sessions, 3-5 days a week. The school determines how they will implement the program according to their current staffing capacity.
NOTE: The ERIK program resources are currently being updated as part of a current research project (ERIKsen), underway in 20 schools. The new ERIKsen resources should be available to Catholic schools in 2022.
The ERIK PL activity aims to enhance teacher and LSAs knowledge of early literacy assessment and intervention. It also explores the three intervention pathways: Phonological Awareness, Orthographic Processing and Comprehension.
Teachers & Learning Support Assistants (LSAs) working with ‘at risk’ students. LSAs need to be accompanied by a teacher or the LSA needs to be from a school with a teacher previously trained in ERIK.
To access the ERIK PL activity go to Online Professional Learning (OPL) in the CEVN website.
The ERIK resource is currently only available to Catholic schools, as the resource is not sold without the associated training which, at this stage, is only available to Catholic schools.
