Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but children have the equal right to develop their talent, their ability, and their motivation.
                                  
                                 
John F. Kennedy
 

The Arkansas Literacy Intervention Matrix includes (a)“best practice”, research based, curricular approaches linked directly to the Arkansas Frameworks to use with all students (including students with disabilities) to maximize total literacy success, (b) probes to assist teachers in functional analysis of possible deficits in literacy, linked to, (c) sample lessons providing a framework to address a particular skill deficit. These lessons include Tier II, III, IV and V interventions to use when students are not acquiring critical skills in these curricula and need different and/or more intensive strategies to facilitate mastery across the five essential elements of literacy.