The Responding to Individual Differences in Education (RIDE) Reading Intervention Bank is a multimedia Web-based program consisting of 100 research-based instructional or intervention tactics across the five critical areas of literacy: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. The RIDE Reading Intervention Bank gives teachers the option to not only peruse a variety of literacy tactics (including links to all necessary worksheets needed to successfully teach each skill), but also to view videos of selected tactics that demonstrate critical parts of the tactic or that provide supplemental information. In addition, there is a student tracking and graphing system that allows teachers to easily monitor student progress and responses to the interventions tried over time. The RIDE Reading Intervention Bank is an excellent resource for Arkansas educators (both general and special education) to use with students from preprimer through high school levels, struggling in the area of literacy. 

     The RIDE Reading Intervention Bank, free to ALL Arkansas educators, is the product of over two years of collaborative efforts among the Arkansas Department of Education, Special Education Unit, State Improvement Grant personnel, and Sopris West Educational Services, a national publishing company in Colorado. The RIDE is free to only Arkansas educators. Therefore, the registration information is not to be shared outside the State of Arkansas. School districts and individual educators accessing the RIDE are responsible for abiding by the terms of use. 

     TO REGISTER ON THE RIDE:  The first step is to contact Lisa Haley to obtain a site password. The second step is to visit http://ride.sopriswest.com/reading/ride_access.aspx. The online tool will generate a registration key and step-by-step directions that teachers will need to register as a RIDE user. Teachers are advised to record the registration key and print out the directions for registration.  Registration is only necessary for first-time-use.