NYSRA 2019: Tier 1 RTI/MTSS Workshop: Jim Wright

On Saturday 16 November 2019, Jim Wright presented the workshop RTI/MTSS First Responder: How K-6 Teachers Can Provide Effective Tier 1 Reading Interventions. The training took place at the New York State Reading Association annual conference in Albany, NY.

Here are resources shared at the training:

PowerPoint: RTI/MTSS First Responder: How K-6 Teachers Can Provide Effective Tier 1 Reading Interventions [1]
Handout: Tier 1/How to Implement Strong Core Instruction: Direct Instruction Checklist (Interactive Form) [2]
Supplemental/Online Handout: How To: Define Academic Problems: The First Step in EffectiveIntervention Planning [3]

Grade	Student Problem	Intervention	Progress-Monitoring
K	Andrew: Letter Names: Skill Deficit	Letter Names: Flashcards with 3-Second Delay [4]	Letter Names Fluency Probes (CBM) [5]: easyCBM Materials are free: Teacher log-in required Letter Name Probe Generator: www.interventioncentral.org [6]
1	Miranda: CVC Words: Skill Deficit	Phonics: Word Boxes/Word Sort [7]	Nonsense Word Fluency Probes (CBM) [8]: Dibels Next/ Acadience Learning: Materials are free: Teacher log-in required Dolch Word List Builder: [9] Free app to create random lists of Dolch Words for instruction and assessment
4	Lyla: Reading: Fluency Deficit	Reading Fluency: Passage Preview in Stages [10]	Passage Reading Fluency Probes (CBM) [5]: easyCBM Materials are free: Teacher log-in required
5	Jared: Comprehension: Generalization Deficit	Reading Comprehension: Read Actively [11] [10]	Michigan’s Mission: Literacy Website: Examples of Retell Rubrics: http://www.missionliteracy.com/retelling.html [12] Story/Narrative Retell Rubric: Teachers College: http://usd450.net/files/A-Z_retell_rubric.pdf [13] Sample Retell Rubrics: Saddlespace: https://www.saddlespace.org/lunowa/trabucolunowandrea/cms_file/show/67252294.pdf?t=1496956058 [14] [5]

How to Write Down/Document a Tier 1/Classroom Intervention:

What Works Clearinghose 'Practice Guides'. The What Works Clearinghouse [17] 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 and writing across the grade levels:

Accommodations. Here are tools for providing accommodations to readers, including determining/adjusting level of text difficulty:

[26]Definitions: Core Instruction, Academic Interventions, Accommodations, Modifications [27]

Accommodations Finder [26]. Use this free online app to create 'accommodation' plans for individual students or an entire class.

Lexile Analyzer. [28]This free site allows teachers to calculate Lexile (readability) levels for text samples of up to 1000 words.
Newsela. [29]This free site contains current news stories. Each story is written to match multiple Lexile levels.
Smithsonian Tween Tribune. [30]Articles from this site are written at 4 Lexile levels. https://www.tweentribune.com/ [30]

ACADEMIC INTERVENTION IDEAS

General Academic Skills

Acquisition of Academic Item-Set

Flash Cards with Constant Time Delay. [31] 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 [7]
Incremental Rehearsal: Letter Identification [32]
Letter Cube Blending [33]

Reading: Sight-Word Vocabulary

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

Reading Racetracks. [34]The student engages in repeated reading of a wordlist packaged in a 'racetrack' format. Reading Racetrack Interactive Form [35]
Vocabulary: Classwide Tutoring. [36] 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. [37] The tutor reads aloud while the student follows along silently in the practice passage. Then the student reads aloud.
Choral Reading. [38]The tutor (lead reader) reads aloud while the reading group or class all read aloud as well.
Duet Reading. [39]The tutor and student alternate in reading aloud, with the tutor deciding how much text the student reads during their turn.
Echo Reading. [40]Student and tutor alternate in reading short sections of the practice passage.
Listening Passage Preview. [41]The student listens to the passage read aloud, then reads the passage aloud with tutor feedback.
Passage Preview in Sections. [10]The tutor and student rehearse/read the passage in sections.
Paired Reading. [42] The tutor and student read aloud together from a passage, until the student isgnals that they would like to read alone.
Repeated Reading. [43]The student reads a passage several times in succession with tutor feedback about accuracy and fluency.
Repeated Reading: Group. [44]This version of repeated reading is delivered to a group of 3 students.

HELPS Program. [45]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. [46]The student uses self-signals to monitor understanding at the sentence, paragraph, and page level--and applies 'fix-up' skills.
Reading Reflection Pauses [47]. 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. [48]The student uses a graphic organizer to record main idea and supporting details of a passage.
Question Generation. [49]The student locates or creates main-idea sentences for all paragraphis in a passage and uses them to create study cards.
Read-Ask-Paraphrase. [50] The student locates main idea and supporting details for each paragraph and summarizes them on a graphic organizer.
RAP Interactive Form [51]
Read Actively. [11]THe student reads, covers, recalls from memory, and rereads each paragraph to boost comprehension.
Partner Retell. [52]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. [53] 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. [54]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. [55]The student creates a reading plan and sets reading goals, monitors understanding while reading, and reflects on the reading once finished.
ART Interactive Form. [56]
Phrase-Cued Text Lessons. [57]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 [58]

Spelling

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

Cover-Copy-Compare. [59]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 [60]
Self-Correction with Verbal Cues. [61] 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. [62] The student receives writing instruction that contains some or all of these 9 'best writing practices'.
Sentence Combining. [63] The student is given examples of 2 clauses to be combined into a single sentence.

Math

Number Sense Intervention: Counting Board Game [64]

Math Facts: Incremental Rehearsal (Constant Time Delay): Flash Cards [65]

Math Facts: Self-Administered Folding-In (SAFI) Technique [66]

Work Completion: Problem-Interspersal Technique [70]

Math Vocabulary: Classwide Vocabulary Tutoring [75]
Self-Management: Customized Math Self-Correction Checklists [76]
Math Anxiety: Managing Academic Anxiety Through an Antecedent Writing Activity [77]

Self-Management

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

Academic Survival Skills. [85] The student possesses strong work habits in global skills such as time management, study skills, and organization.
ONLINE APP: Academic Survival Skills Checklist Generator. [86] This free app allows teachers to create and save customized checklists for use in classrooms.

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 [90]
Math interventions [91]