From Jim Wright: Workshop Materials

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RTI:Academic Interventions for Difficult-to-Teach Students/Research-Based Interventions to Manage Challenging Classroom Behaviors Jim Wright, Presenter On 22 September 2011, Jim Wright presented on the topics RTI:Academic Interventions for Difficult-to-Teach Students and Research-Based Interventions to Manage Challenging Classroom Behaviors at the South Dakota Association of School Psychologists Fall 2011 Conference in Aberdeen, SD. Here are resources from that day. NOTE: To download and save these files to your computer, right-click and choose 'Save Target As...':
	RTI: Academic Interventions/Behavioral Interventions: in PDF Format
	Workshop Handout
	Intervention Example: Colin: Letter Identification Using Incremental Rehearsal. This intervention from the Evidence-Based Intervention Network is used to help the student to experience high success while acquiring math, spelling, or site word skills.
Academic Target: Motivation / Behavior
	Classroom Intervention: Six Reasons Why Students Are Unmotivated (and What Teachers Can Do): Jim Wright's Supplemental Handout
	Behavior Report Card Generator. Customize your own 'Daily Behavior Report Card' to measure student classroom behaviors, have students self-rate their behaviors, and communicate with parents about their child's school conduct and work habits.
Teacher as Problem-Solver
	Defining Academic Problems: The First Step in Effective Intervention Planning
	Instructional Hierarchy. This hierarchy frames the learning process as a series of four stages: acquisition, fluency, generalization, adaptation.
	Tier 1 (Classroom) Intervention Plan Documentation Form
	Definitions of Terms: Core Instruction, Intervention, Accommodation, Modification
	Student 'Academic Enabler' Skills Checklists: In MS Word Format

Academic Target: Core Reading Instruction
	Guidelines for Creating Reading Centers: FL Center for Reading Research. This handout outlines key recommendations for setting up classroom reading centers to deliver differentiated Tier 1 reading instruction in grades K-2.
	Core Instruction: Teacher Ideas for Vocabulary Development, Guided Discussion, Reading Comprehension
	Core Instructon: WWC Guide: Improving Adolescent Literacy: Effective Classroom and Intervention Practices. This manual from the What Works Clearinghouse presents ideas to boost student reading skills in middle and high school classrooms.
	Reading Next: A Vision for Action and Research in Middle and High School Literacy. The Reading next report provides recent research on effective classroom strategies to promote adolescent literacy skills.
	Core Instruction: RTI for Secondary Schools: Reading Program ‘Readiness Check’

Academic Target: Reading Fluency
	Classroom Intervention: Repeated Reading
	Classroom Intervention: Listening Passage Preview
	Tier 2/3 Intervention: 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 2and 3.
	Reading Fluency: Research Norms: easyCBM. The easyCBM (www.easycbm.com) site provides free assessment materials through grade 8 to screen and monitor students in reading fluency. The site also has research-based reading norms to help schools to judge whether a particular student can read with adequate fluency for the grade level.

Academic Target: Reading Comprehension
	Classroom Intervention: 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.
	Classroom Intervention: Main Idea Maps
	Classroom Intervention: Mental Imagery
	Classroom Intervention: Prior Knowledge: Activating the Known
	Classroom Intervention: Text Lookback
	Reading Comprehension 'Fix-Up' Skills
	Reading Comprehension Assessment: Classroom Screening: Maze Passage Generator. This free application from www.interventioncentral.org allows the user to type or paste in a text selection and quickly create a Maze passage (measure of reading comprehension during silent reading). Teachers can use this application to make screener Maze passages using samples from the course text book or other grade-appropriate materials.

Academic Target: Writing Skills
	Core Instruction: Writing Next . Writing Next report (2007) on promoting adolescent writing skills in the classroom from the Carnegie Corporation of NY. The report includes a list of 11 effective writing instructional practices.
	Classroom Intervention: General Writing Strategies
	Classroom Intervention: Sentence Combining
	Writing Skills Checklist. This informal checklist breaks writing problems down into specific areas and offers intervention ideas for each.
	Writing Assessment: Curriculum-Based Measurement Writing Probe Generator. Teachers can quickly create CBM writing probes to collect 4-minute timed writing samples from students to evaluate grasp of mechanics and conventions of writing. Directions for administering, scoring, and interpreting CBM writing probes are included on the page.
Academic Target: Math Skills
	National Mathematics Advisory Panel Report. Curriculum and instructional recommendations from the 2008 National Math Panel.
	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.
	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.
	Self-Administered Arithmetic Combination Drills With Performance Self-Monitoring & Incentives. This self-administered intervention encourages the student to increase computation fluency.
	Cover-Copy-Compare. Thestudent self-administersintervention to promote acquisition of math facts, spelling words, etc.
	Problem-Interspersal Technique. The student is given a math computation worksheet that has difficult and easy problems intermixed.
	Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategy: Math Word Problems. This intervention teaches the student a 7-step process for solving math word problems--and also gives the student training in serving as their own 'metacognitive coach' through a Say, Ask, Check sequence.
	Math Worksheet Generator. Use this free application from Intervention Central to design and print worksheets to use in math computation interventions.

Academic Target: Study/Organizational Skills
	Classroom Interventions: Study/Organizational Skills
	Classroom Intervention: 'Managing Test Anxiety' Test-Preparation Strategies
	Parent Intervention: Homework Contract
	Classroom Accommodation: Guided Notes

Web Resources: These web sites offer additional intervention resources that schools may find helpful:
	What Works Clearinghouse Practice Guides. These short (60-100 page) manuals give research-based ideas for teachers and schools for interventions.
	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.
	Florida Center for Reading Research. Explore reading interventions and lesson plans for elementary students.
	FreeReading. This site has reading intervention ideas taken from the National Reading Panel study of 2000.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Intervention Central . The site has a range of academic and behavioral intervention ideas suitable for middle and high schools.
	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.
	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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