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The Teacher as Classroom Intervention First-Responder in Grades 3-12: How to Find & Fix Academic Skill Deficits


On Wednesday, 6 August 2014, Jim Wright presented a workshop, The Teacher as Classroom Intervention First-Responder in Grades 3-12: How to Find & Fix Academic Skill Deficits, to staff from Schoolcraft, MI, schools. Here are resources shared at the training:
- PowerPoint: The Teacher as Classroom Intervention First-Responder in Grades 3-12: How to Find & Fix Academic Skill Deficits
- Workshop Handout
The Teacher as Tier 1 First Responder: Core Instruction & Classroom Intervention
- How To: Improve Academic Interventions: 7 Big Ideas
- Checklist: Elements of Direct Instruction
- Classroom Intervention Planning Sheet [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
- How To: Structure Data Collection for Individual Students: Baseline, Goal, Progress-Monitoring
- Student Intervention: Progress-Monitoring Sheet [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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CBM Type |
Online CBM Application |
CBM Directions & Norms |
CBM: Letter Name Fluency & Letter Sound Fluency |
Letter Name Fluency Generator | LNF/LSF: Directions & Norms |
CBM: Oral Reading Fluency |
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C BM: Maze Passages (Comprehension) |
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CBM: Early Math Fluency |
Early Math Fluency Generator | Early Math Fluency: Directions & Norms |
CBM: Math Computation |
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CBM: Written Expression |
Online Tools for Data Collection
Here are links to free online tools to help teachers with data collection:
- Behavior Report Card Maker
- Self-Check Behavior Checklist Maker
- Academic Survival Skills Checklist Maker
Sample Academic Interventions
Here are links to some interventionists discussed at the training:
- Vocabulary: Classwide Tutoring
- Sample Reading Fluency Interventions: 7 Ideas (Includes Assisted Cloze, Paired Reading, Repeated Reading)
- HELPS Reading Fluency Program
- Text Lookback
- Question Generation
- Reading Comprehension Fix-Up Strategies (includes Reading Reflection Pause, Question Generation, Linking Pronoun to Referent)
- Group Reading Fluency Intervention: Repeated Reading
- RAP (Read-Ask-Paraphrase): Reading Comprehension
- Ask-Read-Tell Cognitive Strategy: Reading Comprehension
- Math Facts (and Spelling) Intervention: Cover-Copy-Compare
- Math Facts: Self-Administered Folding-In (SAFI) Technique
- Reciprocal Peer Tutoring in Math Computation With Constant Time Delay
- Effective Elements of Writing Instruction
- Sentence-Combining
- Student Self-Regulation: Work-Planning Conference
Here are 3 websites with good research-based intervention ideas: