Oakview Elementary: RTI and the Teacher as Tier 1 'First Responder'

On Monday, 4 August 2014, Jim Wright presented a full-day workshop to staff from Oakview Elementary School (West Deptford, NJ Schools) on the topic Elementary: RTI and the Teacher as Tier 1 'First Responder'. Here are resources and links shared at the training:

The Teacher as Tier 1 First Responder: Core Instruction & Classroom Intervention

• PowerPoint
• How To: Improve Academic Interventions: 7 Big Ideas
• Checklist: Elements of Direct Instruction
• Classroom Intervention Planning Sheet [in RTF/MS Word format]. This 1-page form is an organizer to help teachers to easily document Tier 1 (classroom) interventions.

• Definitions: Intervention, Accommodation, Modification

Classroom Data Collection

• Data Collection: How To...Match a Progress-Monitoring Tool to Every Classroom Problem
• How To: Struture Data Collection for Individual Students: Baseline, Goal, Progress-Monitoring
• Student Intervention: Progress-Monitoring Sheet [in RTF/MS Word format]. This sheet allows electronic entry of student monitoring data.

Curriculum-Based Measurement: Sample Measures and Norms
CBM Type	Online CBM Application	CBM Directions & Norms
CBM: Letter Name Fluency & Letter Sound Fluency	Letter Name Fluency Generator	LNF/LSF: Directions & Norms
CBM: Oral Reading Fluency	Reading Passage Generator	Oral Reading Fluency: Directions & Norms
CBM: Maze Passages (Comprehension)	Maze Passage Generator	Maze: Directions & Norms
CBM: Early Math Fluency	Early Math Fluency Generator	Early Math Fluency: Directions & Norms
CBM: Math Computation	Math Worksheet Generator	Math Computation: Directions & Norms
CBM: Written Expression	Writing Probe Generator	Writing: Directions & Norms

Online Tools for Data Collection

Here are links to free online tools to help teachers with data collection:

• Behavior Report Card Maker
• Self-Check Behavior Checklist Maker

Sample Academic Interventions

Here are links to some  interventionists discussed at the training:

• Incremental Rehearsal: Letter Identification
• Letter Cube Blending

• Sample Reading Fluency Interventions: 7 Ideas
• HELPS Reading Fluency Program

• Text Lookback
• Question Generation
• Reading Comprehension Fix-Up Strategies
• Group Reading Fluency Intervention: Repeated Reading
• RAP (Read-Ask-Paraphrase): Reading Comprehension
  
• Ask-Read-Tell Cognitive Strategy: Reading Comprehension
  

• Number Sense Intervention: Counting Board Game

• Math Facts (and Spelling) Intervention: Cover-Copy-Compare
• Math Facts: Self-Administered Folding-In (SAFI) Technique
• Reciprocal Peer Tutoring in Math Computation With Constant Time Delay

• Customized Math Self-Correction Checklists 

• Effective Elements of Writing Instruction
• Sentence-Combining

Here are 3 websites with good research-based intervention ideas:

• Intervention Central
• Evidence-Based Intervention Network
• Cognitive Strategy Instruction