Gaining the Instructional Edge: How to Find & Fix Academic Skill Deficits Through RTI and the Common Core Standards

On Thursday 26 September 2013, Jim Wright presented a pre-conference workshop for the South Carolina Association of School Psychologists (SCASP) in Columbia, SC on the topic, Gaining the Instructional Edge: How to Find & Fix Academic Skill Deficits Through RTI and the Common Core Standards. . Here are handouts and resources shared at the workshop:

Core Instruction

DIRECT INSTRUCTION CHECKLIST: How To: Deliver Direct Instruction in General-Education Classrooms [3].

Academic Interventions

How To: Improve Academic Interventions: 7 Big Ideas [4]
How To: Create a Written Record of Classroom Interventions' [5]
Classroom Intervention Planning Sheet [6] [in RTF/MS Word format]. This 1-page form is an organizer to help teachers to easily document Tier 1 (classroom) interventions.

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

Here are links to some interventionists discussed at the training:

Incremental Rehearsal: Letter Identification [10]
Letter Cube Blending [11]
Sample Reading Fluency Interventions: 7 Ideas [12]
HELPS Reading Fluency Program [13]
Text Lookback [14]
Question Generation [15]
Reading Comprehension Fix-Up Strategies [16]

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

Behavioral Interventions

Good Behavior Game. [26] This document explains how teachers can set up a positive behavior game in their classrooms.
Color Wheel: Classroom Rules Management System [27]
Online Tool: Behavior Intervention Planner [28]

Accommodations

Online Tool: Accommodations Finder [29]

Data-Collection Tools & Resources

Online Tool: Behavior Report Card Maker [30]

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