The alarmist bloc of the inept education industry calls reading remediation an ‘intervention’, as if levelling up is a five-alarm fire. They use terms like ‘decoding’, as if literacy is secretive and arcane, as if it's the Enigma Machine and they're Alan Turing. They’ve euphemized phonics into ‘The Science of Reading’.
If illiteracy is a fire, the best extinguisher is the gentle attention of a parent who loves her kid. Unfortunately, not enough American parents love their children sufficiently to share the ability to read and write. Apostates to knowledge who reject the sacrament of reading to their children, they don’t mind missing out on this dependably wonderful and intimate experience.
So it's up to kids to acquire literacy on their own, which they're perfectly capable of doing inside the sanctum of Overhead in Bed, far from their insecure and unaffectionate environment.