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 [1]
- How To: Improve Academic Interventions: 7 Big Ideas [2]
- Checklist: Elements of Direct Instruction [3]
- Classroom Intervention Planning Sheet [4] [in RTF/MS Word format]. This 1-page form is an organizer to help teachers to easily document Tier 1 (classroom) interventions.
Classroom Data Collection
- Data Collection: How To...Match a Progress-Monitoring Tool to Every Classroom Problem [6]
- How To: Struture Data Collection for Individual Students: Baseline, Goal, Progress-Monitoring [7]
- Student Intervention: Progress-Monitoring Sheet [8] [in RTF/MS Word format]. This sheet allows electronic entry of student monitoring data.
Curriculum-Based Measurement: Sample Measures and Norms |
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Online CBM Application |
CBM Directions & Norms |
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Letter Name Fluency Generator [9] | LNF/LSF: Directions & Norms [10] |
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Early Math Fluency Generator [15] | Early Math Fluency: Directions & Norms [16] |
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Online Tools for Data Collection
Here are links to free online tools to help teachers with data collection:
Sample Academic Interventions
Here are links to some interventionists discussed at the training:
- Text Lookback [27]
- Question Generation [28]
- Reading Comprehension Fix-Up Strategies [29]
- Group Reading Fluency Intervention: Repeated Reading [30]
- RAP (Read-Ask-Paraphrase): Reading Comprehension [31]
- Ask-Read-Tell Cognitive Strategy: Reading Comprehension [32]
- Math Facts (and Spelling) Intervention: Cover-Copy-Compare [34]
- Math Facts: Self-Administered Folding-In (SAFI) Technique [35]
- Reciprocal Peer Tutoring in Math Computation With Constant Time Delay [36]
Here are 3 websites with good research-based intervention ideas:
- Intervention Central [40]
- Evidence-Based Intervention Network [41]
- Cognitive Strategy Instruction [42]
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