Rochester (NY)
City Schools: Cohorts 1 & 2: RTI Update/Cohort 3: RTI Introduction
Jim Wright, Presenter
On 2-4 March 2011, Jim
Wright presented an 'RTI Update' workshop for the secondary schools
(2 March) and elemetnary schools (3 March) from Cohorts 1 and 2.
On 4 March, Jim presented an introduction to RTI for elementary
and secondary schools in Cohort 3.
Here are PowerPointsfrom
the workshops, as well as the handouts and other links. NOTE: To
download and save these files to your computer, right-click and
choose 'Save Target As...':
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March 2011: RTI:Cohorts 1 & 2: Secondary Schools: PPT |
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March 2011: RTI:Cohorts 1 & 2: Elementary Schools: PPT |
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March 2011: RTI:Cohort 3: Elementary and Secondary Schools: PPT |
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March 2011: Handout for Cohorts 1 & 2 |
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March 2011: Handout for Cohort 3 |
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New
York State Education Department Guidance Document on RTI. Released
in October 2010, this NYSED guidance document provides a guide to
schools at any grade level in how to structure their RTI model and
services.. |
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Web Resources:
These web sites offer additional intervention resources that schools
may find helpful:
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Guide
Notes Maker. Guided Notes can help struggling readers to better
understand course content and remain academically engaged during class.
Teachers can use this free application to create guided notes for
their students. |
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What
Works Clearinghouse Practice Guides. These short (60-100 page)
manuals give research-based ideas for teachers and schools for interventions. |
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Reading
Interventions Manual from Jim Wright. This manual uses intervention
ideas taken from the National Reading Panel Report of 2000. It contains
4 reading fluency interventions, and 10 interventions for reading
comprehension. |
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Cognitive
Strategy Instruction . This website presents a series of interventions
in which students are taught thinking strategies that they can use
to perform better in reading, mathematics, writing, studying, and
other areas. The site was created by Dr. Bob Reid and Torri Lienemann
at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. |
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Ideas
to Boost Basic Academic Skills . This site, 'Scientifically Based
Research', contains interventions that target reading, math, and writing.
The strategies were written by Dr. Amanda VanDerHeyden of the University
of Southern California at Santa Barbara and Dr. Joe Witt of Louisiana
State University. |
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HELPS
Reading Program. HELPS (Helping Early Literacy with Practice Strategies)
is a free program that targets student reading fluency skills. HELPS
was developed by Dr. John Begeny of North Carolina State University.
The program is an evidence-based intervention package that includes
the following effective treatment components: adult modeling of fluent
reading, repeated reading of passages by the student, phrase-drill
error correction, verbal cueing and retell check to encourage student
reading comprehension, and reward procedures to engage and encourage
the student reader. HELPS can be used as an RTI intervention for reading
fluency at Tiers 1 through 3. |
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Reading,
Math, & Writing Interventions from MSU . Find pages featuring
intervention ideas to improve reading comprehension, writing, and
math skills on this site. It is sponsored by the School Psychology
Program at Michigan State University. |
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Intervention
Central . The site has a range of academic and behavioral intervention
ideas suitable for middle and high schools. |
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Florida
Center for Reading Research. Explore reading interventions and
lesson plans for elementary students. |
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FreeReading.
This site has reading intervention ideas taken from the National Reading
Panel study of 2000. |
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Evidence-Based
Intervention Network. Created by the school
psychology program at North Carolina State University, this site has
research-based intervention scripts for academics and behavior. |
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Behavior
Advisor . Dr. Tom McIntyre of Hunter College offers research-based
behavioral strategies for whole groups and individual students..NOTE:
You must create a log-in account before you can access the free intervention
ideas on this site. |
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Writing
Next . Writing Next report on promoting
adolescent writing skills (2007) from the Carnegie Corporation of
NY. |
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National
Mathematics Advisory Panel Report. Curriculum
and instructional recommendations from the 2008 National Math Panel. |
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