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RTI Lab: Effective
Academic Interventions for Struggling Middle School Students On 11 March 2011, Jim Wright presented on the topic of classroom interventions for middle school students for educators from the Sachem (NY) Central School District. Here are PowerPointsfrom the workshop, as well as the handout and other links. NOTE: To download and save these files to your computer, right-click and choose 'Save Target As...': |
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11 March 2011: RTI: Effective Academic Interventions: PPT |
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11 March 2011: Handout 1: Academic Intervention Resources |
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11 March 2011: Handout 2: Methods of Classroom Data Collection |
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11 March 2011: Ways to Track Intervention Integrity |
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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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National Center on RTI Review of Progress-Monitoring Tools. This page provides a review of different tools for RTI progress-monitoring. |
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Growth Norms for Reading Fluency from Hasbrouck & Tindal (2005). These longitudinal reading fluency norms appear in a table with growth norms included. |
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EasyCBM: Phonemic Awareness, Reading, Math Applications Norms. Here are research norms from August 2010 with CBM norms from EasyCBM. |
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AIMWseb (2006-2007) Norms in Phonemic Awareness, Reading, Math, Writing, Spelling . You can review a set of AIMSweb norms from several years ago at this link. |
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Excel Spreadsheet for Calculating Slope from Student Screening Data |
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Teacher Tier 1 (Classroom) Intervention Plan Documentation Form |
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Interventions: These academic intervention ideas may also be helpful: |
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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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Self-Administered Arithmetic Combination Drills With Performance Self-Monitoring & Incentives. This self-administered intervention encourages the student to increase computation fluency. |
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Cover-Copy-Compare. Thestudent self-administersintervention to promote acquisition of math facts, spelling words, etc. |
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Problem-Interspersal Technique. The student is given a math computation worksheet that has difficult and easy problems intermixed. |
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Math Worksheet Generator. Use this free application from Intervention Central to design and print worksheets to use in math computation interventions. |
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Sentence Combining . The student is given pairs of clauses and follows simple to combine them to create more advanced sentences. |
| Reading Interventions | |
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Paired Reading. The student has the choice to read aloud in tandem with a tutor or to read independently while the tutor follows along. |
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Reading Comprehension Fix-Up Skills. This handout contains sample ideas that a middle or high school teacher could use to promote reading comprehension among students. |
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Click or Clunk. This intervention teaches the student to monitor understanding of reading at the sentence, paragraph, and page level. |
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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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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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