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The National Center for Leadership in Intensive Intervention (NCLII), a consortium funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), prepares special education leaders to become experts in research on intensive intervention for students with disabilities who have persistent and severe academic (e.g., reading and math) and behavioral difficulties. By the end of the first year of their program, scholars in each cohort work in cross-institutional collaborative groups to create an Intensive Intervention Practice Guide. In each guide, scholars identify an approach to intensive intervention for a select population of students with disabilities, describe the existing evidence base behind it, and discuss the next steps in research needed to improve the understanding of designing and delivering the intervention. The "Intensive Intervention Practice Guides" are created for practitioners as well as faculty engaged in instructing pre- and in-service teachers. This practice guide provides three concrete strategies that can be used to support students with comorbid reading and math difficulty. By using schemas to support problem solving, focusing intentionally on math language, and creating opportunities for math writing, math educators, from elementary to high school, can better support students with reading needs in the math classroom. [Graphic services supported in part by EKS NICHD Grant #1P50HD103537-01 to the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center.]