Lindenhurst UFSD: Jim Wright's Workshop

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On 22-24 October 2019, Jim Wright presented a half-day MTSS classroom academic-interventions workshop by grade level to teachers of the Lindenhurst School District. Here are resources from the training:

Supplemental Handout: Types of Prompts [4]
Supplemental Handout:: REINFORCING LOWER RATE OF HELP REQUESTS: INCREASE STUDENTINDEPENDENCE [5].
Classroom Support Plan (CSP). [6]This Google Docs form is deigned to capture the essential documentation of a CSP, including the intervention play, record of student contacts during the intervention, and progress-monitoring data.

Classroom Academic Interventions List

Classroom Data Collection [7]

1. Behavior Report Cards

2. Checklists

ONLINE APP: Self-Check Behavior Checklist Maker [10]

3. Cumulative Mastery Records

Cumulative Mastery Record Form (Interactive) [11]

4. Curriculum-Based Measurement

Letter Name Fluency Generator [16]
LNF/LSF: Directions & Norms [17]

Dolch Word List Generator [18] (no norms available)

CBM Writing Probe Generator [19]
CBM Writing Directions & Norms [20]

On 11-13 Sept 2019, Jim Wright visited all of the elementary schools in the Lindenhurst School District to conduct a half-day 'audit' of their RTI/MTSS process. Here are resources shared during those visits:

RTI/MTSS for Academics: District-Wide Planning Tool: Shareable Google Docs [23]

ACADEMIC INTERVENTION IDEAS

General Academic Skills

Acquisition of Academic Item-Set

Flash Cards with Constant Time Delay. [26] This high-success flashcard intervention can be used to teach letter and number names, sight words, spelling words, and vocabulary definitions

Reading: Phonics/Alphabetics

Word Boxes/Word Sort [27]
Incremental Rehearsal: Letter Identification [28]
Letter Cube Blending [29]

Reading: Sight-Word Vocabulary

Sight-Word Vocabulary. The student has rapid recognition of sight-words.

Reading Racetracks. [30]The student engages in repeated reading of a wordlist packaged in a 'racetrack' format. Reading Racetrack Interactive Form [31]
Vocabulary: Classwide Tutoring. [32] Students are paired off to tutor each other in sight-word vocabulary.

Reading Fluency

Fluency. The student reads with adequate fluency to comprehend the text.

Assisted Cloze. [33] The tutor reads aloud while the student follows along silently in the practice passage. Then the student reads aloud.
Choral Reading. [34]The tutor (lead reader) reads aloud while the reading group or class all read aloud as well.
Duet Reading. [35]The tutor and student alternate in reading aloud, with the tutor deciding how much text the student reads during their turn.
Echo Reading. [36]Student and tutor alternate in reading short sections of the practice passage.
Listening Passage Preview. [37]The student listens to the passage read aloud, then reads the passage aloud with tutor feedback.
Paired Reading. [38] The tutor and student read aloud together from a passage, until the student isgnals that they would like to read alone.
Repeated Reading. [39]The student reads a passage several times in succession with tutor feedback about accuracy and fluency.
Repeated Reading: Group. [40]This version of repeated reading is delivered to a group of 3 students.

HELPS Program. [41]This free program provides 15-minute 1:1 tutoring sessions to work on reading fluency. NOTE: Teachers create a free account on the HELPS site and then can access the free materials.

Reading Comprehension

Self-Monitoring:The student monitors understanding of the text while reading.

Click or Clunk. [42]The student uses self-signals to monitor understanding at the sentence, paragraph, and page level--and applies 'fix-up' skills.
Reading Reflection Pauses [43]. The student monitors understanding periodically and applies fix-up skills.

Main Idea:The student locates the main idea of a paragraph or passage in informational text.

Main Idea Maps. [44]The student uses a graphic organizer to record main idea and supporting details of a passage.
Question Generation. [45]The student locates or creates main-idea sentences for all paragraphis in a passage and uses them to create study cards.
Read-Ask-Paraphrase. [46] The student locates main idea and supporting details for each paragraph and summarizes them on a graphic organizer. RAP Interactive Form [47]
Partner Retell. [48]The student reads a passage, then pairs with another student to engage in a tutoring exchange to identify main idea.
Repeated Reading With Oral/Written Retell. [49] The student reads a passage several times and is asked to write or recite the key information from the passage.

Linking Ideas:The student makes connections between ideas in the text.

Linking Pronouns to Referents. [50]When reading advanced texts, the student circles pronouns, writes their referents above them, and then rereads the text, inserting the referent for each pronoun.
Ask-Read-Tell. [51]The student creates a reading plan and sets reading goals, monitors understanding while reading, and reflects on the reading once finished. ART Interactive Form. [52]
Phrase-Cued Text Lessons. [53]The student reads aloud from annotated text and is coached to observe all pauses/phrase breaks, which correspond to groupings of ideas within the text. ONLINE APP: Phrase-Cued Text Generator [54]

Spelling

Spelling Acquisition. The student is able to spell a grade-appropriate range of words correctly.

Cover-Copy-Compare. [55]The student studies spelling-word (or sight-word) models, covers them, copies them from memory, and compares copied words to the originals. CCC Interactive Form [56]
Self-Correction with Verbal Cues. [57] The student takes a brief spelling pre-test, follows a self-guided process to check and correct spelling errors using verbal cues, and then takes a spelling post-test

Writing

Sentence Complexity. The student writes sentences of appropriate variety and complexity for the subject and/or grade level.

Elements of Effective Writing Instruction. [58] The student receives writing instruction that contains some or all of these 9 'best writing practices'.
Sentence Combining. [59] The student is given examples of 2 clauses to be combined into a single sentence.

Math

Number Sense Intervention: Counting Board Game [60]

Math Facts: Incremental Rehearsal (Constant Time Delay): Flash Cards [61]

Math Facts (and Spelling) Intervention: Cover-Copy-Compare [62]

Math Facts: Self-Administered Folding-In (SAFI) Technique [63]

Math Vocabulary: Classwide Vocabulary Tutoring [69]
Self-Management: Customized Math Self-Correction Checklists [70]

Self-Management

Self-Management in Academic Skills. The student uses appropriate skills and strategies to manage their own learning.

Academic Survival Skills. [78] The student possesses strong work habits in global skills such as time management, study skills, and organization.
ONLINE APP: Academic Survival Skills Checklist Generator. [79] This free app allows teachers to create and save customized checklists for use in classrooms.

What Works Clearinghose 'Practice Guides'. The What Works Clearinghouse [80] is sponsored by the US Department of Education. One of the free resources that the site offers are 'practice guides': summaries of research into effective instruction that any teacher can read and apply to the classroom. Here are a range of practice guides to address reading, writing, and mathematics:

Reading/Writing

Mathematics

Encouraging Girls in Math and Science [94]

Florida Center for Reading Research. This website is a product of a research center at Florida State University.The site includes free lesson plans for reading across grades K-5. (Many of the grade 4-5 resources are appropriate for secondary students with reading delays.)

Evidence-Based Intervention Network. This site is co-sponsored by school psychology programs at East Carolina University and University of Missouri.It contains research-based ideas for reading, math, and behavior interventions.

Reading interventions [98]
Math interventions [99]