Mount Pleasant Schools: RTI: The Role of the Teacher as Classroom First-Responder

On Monday, 9 March 2015, Jim Wright presented an RTI workshop for elementary staff at the Mount Pleasant (NY) Central School District. Here are resources from that conference day:

How to Implement Strong Core Instruction (Direct Instruction Checklist: Interactive Form) [3]

How To: Create a Written Record of Classroom Interventions [4]
Classroom Intervention Planning Sheet [5] (Interactive Form)

Sample Academic Interventions

Here are links to some interventionists discussed at the training:

Incremental Rehearsal [6]: Letter Identification

Reading Racetrack [7]: Sight Words. Reading Racetrack Interactive Form [8]
Sample Reading Fluency Interventions: 7 Ideas [9] (Includes Assisted Cloze, Paired Reading, Repeated Reading)
Repeated Reading: Group. [10]This version of repeated reading is delivered to a group of 3 students.
HELPS Reading Fluency Program [11]

Text Lookback [12]
Question Generation [13]
Reading Comprehension Fix-Up Strategies [14] (includes Reading Reflection Pause, Question Generation, Linking Pronoun to Referent)

Read-Ask-Paraphrase. [15] The student locates main idea and supporting details for each paragraph and summarizes them on a graphic organizer. RAP Interactive Form [16]

Ask-Read-Tell. [17]The student creates a reading plan and sets reading goals, monitors understanding while reading, and reflects on the reading once finished. ART Interactive Form. [18]

Effective Elements of Writing Instruction [22]
Sentence-Combining [23]

Schoolwide Screeners

Check out these websites to review various school wide RTI Tier 2 screening tools for academics and behaviors:

Academic Screeners: National Center on Intensive Intervention
Behavior Screeners: National Center on Intensive Intervention

Free Online Tools

Jackpot Reward Finder [29]
Academic Survival Skills Checklist Maker [30]
Behavior Report Card Maker [31]
Self-Check Behavior Checklist Maker [32]

Data Collection. Here are data collection tools mentioned during the workshop:

Classroom Progress-Monitoring Methods Checklist [33]

1. Academics: Acquisition of Basic Skills

Cumulative Mastery Log

2. Academics: Fluency in Basic Skills

Curriculum-Based Measurement

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 [36]	LNF/LSF: Directions & Norms [37]
CBM: Oral Reading Fluency	Reading Passage Generator [38]	Oral Reading Fluency: Directions & Norms [39]
CBM: Maze Passages (Comprehension)	Maze Passage Generator [40]	Maze: Directions & Norms [41]
CBM: Early Math Fluency	Early Math Fluency Generator [42]	Early Math Fluency: Directions & Norms [43]
CBM: Math Computation	Math Worksheet Generator: Intervention Central [44] SuperKids.com Math Worksheet Generator [45]	Math Computation: Directions & Norms [46]
CBM: Written Expression	Writing Probe Generator [47]	Writing: Directions & Norms [48]

3. Academics: Complex Skills

Rubrics

4. Academics: Survival Skills

Self-Monitoring Checklists
Academic Survival Skills Checklists

5. Behaviors

Behavior Report Cards
Frequency Counts

Additional Data Collection Resources

Data Collection: How To...Match a Progress-Monitoring Tool to Every Classroom Problem [33]
How To: Structure Data Collection for Individual Students: Baseline, Goal, Progress-Monitoring [55]
Student Intervention: Progress-Monitoring Sheet [56] [in RTF/MS Word format]. This sheet allows electronic entry of student monitoring data.

Websites with Tier 2 Programs

Here are links to websites that evaluate high-quality Tier 2 programs for reading, math, and other areas (for both elementary and secondary levels):

Tier 2/3 Intervention Website: What Works Clearinghouse [57]. This website reviews core instruction and intervention programs in reading & mathematics, as well as other academic areas. The site reviews existing studies and draws conclusions about whether specific intervention programs show evidence of effectiveness.

Tier 2/3 Intervention Website: Best Evidence Encyclopedia [58]. This site provides reviews of evidence-based math and reading programs. The website is sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University School of Education's Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education (CDDRE) .

Tier 2/3 Intervention Website: National Center on Intensive Intervention Academic Intervention Chart. [59] Sponsored by the National Center on Intensive Intervention, this page provides ratings to intervention programs in math, reading, and writing. Users can sort their search by subject and grade level.