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RTI:
Effective Academic & Behavioral Interventions for Grades 3-12
Jim Wright, Presenter
On 28-29 June 2012, Jim
Wright provided a two-day workshop on the topics RTI: A Teacher's
Toolkit and Practical Implementation of RTI for the Cayuga-Onondaga
Teacher Center in Auburn, NY.
Here are resources from
the workshop. NOTE: To download and save these files to your computer,
right-click and choose 'Save Target As...':
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RTI:
A Teacher's Toolkit and Practical Implementation of RTI:
PPT in pdf format |
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Full
Workshop Handout for Day 1: Tools for Classroom Intervention [84
pages] |
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Day
2: RTI: Methods of Classroom Data Collection:
PPT in pdf format |
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Workshop
Handout for Day 2: Methods of Classroom Data Collection [38 pages] |
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Supplemental
Workshop Handout: Six Reasons Why Students Are Unmotivated (and What
Teachers Can Do) |
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Phrase-Cued
Text Generator. This free application allows the user to use text
of their choosing to quickly format and print off phrase-cued text
samples. |
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CBM
Writing Probe Generator. Use this application to create curriculum-based
measurement writing probes to monitor students' acquisition of total
words written, correctly spelled words, and correct writing sequences. |
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Teacher
Tier 1 (Classroom) Intervention Plan Documentation Form |
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Student
'Academic Enabler' Skills Checklists: In MS Word Format |
| CBM
Research Norms: Examples |
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EasyCBM |
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AIMSWeb
(2006-2007 Norms). Includes norms for CBM Writing Sequences. |
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Reading
Fluency Norms (Hasbrouck & TIndal, 2005) |
| Websites
to Evaluate Commercial Intervention Programs |
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What
Works Clearinghouse Program Reviews. This website reviews core
instruction and intervention programs in reading/writing, as well
as other academic areas.The site reviews existing studies and draws
conclusions about whether specific intervention programs show evidence
of effectiveness. |
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Best
Evidence Encyclopedia. This site provides reviews of evidence-based
reading and math programs.The website is sponsored by the Johns Hopkins
University School of Education's Center for Data-Driven Reform in
Education (CDDRE) . |
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Instructional
Intervention Tools Page. Sponsored by the National Center on RTI,
this page provides ratings to intervention programs in reading, math,
and writing.Users can streamline their search by subject and grade
level. |
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Core
Math Instruction: Resources
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National
Mathematics Advisory Panel Report. Curriculum
and instructional recommendations from the 2008 National Math Panel. |
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Common
Core State Standards Initiative. View the
Common Core State Standards in Mathematics that will soon be informing
classroom math instruction across the United States. |
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What
Works Clearinghouse Practice Guide: Assisting Students Struggling
with Mathematics: Response to Intervention (RtI) for Elementary and
Middle Schools. This manual outlines 8 recommendations
for effective core math instruction. |
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Additional
Sample Intervention Ideas/Resources Shared at the Workshop |
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Cover-Copy-Compare:
Spelling. In this self-administered intervention, the student
looks at correct spelling models, copying from memory, and then checking
response. |
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Peer
Tutor Manual: Reading Fluency. Download a manual to train older
students to serve as cross-age peer tutors in reading fluency to younger
children. |
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'Click
or Clunk' Reading Comprehension.. The student is taught to use
a self-monitoring strategy to track understanding of text at the sentence,
paragraph, and page levels. |
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Good
Behavior Game. This whole-class core behavior management strategy
promotes student focus and attending duiring large-group instruction
and independent seatwork. |
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Counting
Board Game [Number Sense]. This student counting game promotes
number sense for grades K-1. |
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Incremental
Rehearsal . The strategy provides the student with a virtually
error-free to review math facts and other items that can be presented
via flashcards. |
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Math
Customized Self-Correction Checklists. In this strategy, the instructor
creates a customized checklist with the most common student math mistakes.
The student then uses the checklist to self-montor their math work. |
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Peer
Tutoring in Math Computation with Constant Time Delay. This intervention
package trains students to serve as reciprocal tutors with peers to
target math computation. It is a skills 'acquisition' strategy. |
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Academic
Target: Study/Organizational Skills
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Classroom Interventions: Study/Organizational Skills |
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Classroom Intervention: 'Managing Test Anxiety' Test-Preparation Strategies |
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Parent Intervention: Homework Contract |
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Classroom Accommodation: Guided Notes |
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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
Program . The HELPS program is free, research-based, and addresses
reading fluency delays. |
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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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