On Friday 24 March 2023, Jim Wright presented MTSS workshop for Highland Elementary staff. Here are resources from those trainings:
PowerPoint: The Teacher as ‘First Responder’: RTI/MTSS & Struggling Learners [1]
Classroom Support Plan Writer. [2]Free app to create intervention plans.
Behavior Report Card Maker [3]. This free app allows teachers to create customized behavior-rating sheets.
These classroom academic interventions were discussed at the training:
- Word Boxes/Word Sort [4]
- Incremental Rehearsal: Letter Identification [5]
- Reading Racetracks. [6]The student engages in repeated reading of a wordlist packaged in a 'racetrack' format. Reading Racetrack Interactive Form [7]
- Paired Reading. [8] The tutor and student read aloud together from a passage, until the student isgnals that they would like to read alone.
- Repeated Reading: Group. [9]This version of repeated reading is delivered to a group of 3 students.
- Click or Clunk. [10]The student uses self-signals to monitor understanding at the sentence, paragraph, and page level--and applies 'fix-up' skills.
- Read-Ask-Paraphrase. [11] The student locates main idea and supporting details for each paragraph and summarizes them on a graphic organizer.
RAP Interactive Form [12] - Ask-Read-Tell. [13]The student creates a reading plan and sets reading goals, monitors understanding while reading, and reflects on the reading once finished.
ART Interactive Form. [14]
- Number Sense Intervention: Counting Board Game [15]
- Math Facts (and Spelling) Intervention: Cover-Copy-Compare [16]
- Reciprocal Peer Tutoring in Math Computation With Constant Time Delay [17]
- Self-Management: Customized Math Self-Correction Checklists [18]
Check out these free intervention websites/resources:
| 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. |
Intervention Central: Academic Interventions [38]
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Tier 1/Classroom Intervention Planning Sheet (Google Docs) [39]
Tier 2/3: HELPS (Healping Early Literacy with Practice Strategies) Reading-Fluency Program. [40] This free tutoring program helps students to increase reading fluency.