Reading Intervention Programs which currently exist such as ' Success For All' by Robert Slavin et al (1992) and 'Reading Recovery' by Marie Clay (1993) are designed to cater for the needs of young children in primary schools. However very little exists for weaker readers in the secondary school system as it is assumed that students entering school at Year 7 have established reading and writing processes. This is unfortunately not the case for many secondary schools. Given that society expects all individuals to be 'literate', it should not be taken lightly as it is not only an essential survival skill for all throughout life but also vital in order to progress through one's academic years. Given that there is no perfect definition of literacy, Reading Intervention in a secondary school context aims to firstly create opportunities for students to catch up, if they are ever able to; or simply to survive the reading demands placed upon them in mainstream classes and secondly to help students begin to enjoy reading and start to read independently. The researcher attempts to address this problem by describing her Reading Intervention Program which currently exists at Manah Secondary College and through an analysis of the literature on the subject, suggests further improvements.