Response to Intervention - Reading

Background Information

• National Center on Response to Intervention
• International Reading Association
• RTI Action Network
• The Iris Center - case studies and other good materials on RTI and working with students with disabilities
• National Center on Student Progress Monitoring
• National Research Center on Learning Disabilities
• The Florida Center for Reading Research
• Oregon Reading First Center
• Vaughan Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts (Texas)
• The Illinois State RTI Plan
• Illinois ASPIRE - Alliance for School-based Problem-solving and Intervention Resources in Education
• Related Documents - from Illinois School Psychological Association (ISPA)
• Mark R. Shinn - lots of resources

PowerPoint Presentations on RTI

• PowerPoint Presentations - from The School Association for Special Education in DuPage County (SASED)
• PowerPoint Presentations - from ISPA
• PowerPoint Presentations - from Illinois ASPIRE
• PowerPoint Presentations - from Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR)

Reading Interventions

• Interventions for Struggling Readers - the Florida model from FRCC
• Teaching Children to Read - Guidance on the teaching of five areas of reading: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension. From the National Reading Panel.
• Blueprints for Implementing RTI at the District Level and the School Building Level - from the National Association of State Directors of Special Education
• A Consumer's Guide to Analyzing and Selecting a Core Reading Program - from the University of Oregon Center on Teaching and Learning
• Sample Menu of Interventions for Tier 1 - from SASED
• "Building, Implementing, and Sustaining a Beginning Reading Improvement Model"
• "Teaching All Students to Read in Elementary School: A Guide for Principals" - from FCRR
• "Older Struggling Readers: What Works?"
• Effective interventions for struggling students - several modules on teaching comprehension, fluency, the alphabetic principle, and vocabulary - from The Action Center

  Plans of Specific School Districts

• Community Consolidated School District 146 (Tinley Park) - Intervention plans are embedded in the Implementation Guides
• Example of Program at High School Level - at Rolling Meadows High School, Rolling Meadows, IL
• A Chicagoland School District RTI Approach
• Plainfield Community Consolidated School District 202 (Plainfield) - A general overview of their RTI plan
  • some recommended modifications and accommodations

Forms and Charts

• Sample RTI forms - from ISPA
• Sample Fluency Charts - from ISPA
• Benchmark Worksheets - from SASED

Research related to RTI

• Readings/Research - from ISPA
• Research Articles - from FCRR
• National Implementation of RTI - Research summary of current state practices
• "Primary Prevention in Classroom Reading Instruction" - article on evidence-based practices and selecting a core reading program
• "A Response-to-Intervention Approach to Decreasing Early Literacy Differences in First Graders From Different Socioeconomic Backgrounds: Evidence for the Intervention Validity of the DIBELS"
• "Progress in International Reading Literacy Study 2006 (PIRLS): Pedagogical correlates of fourth-grade students in Hong Kong"
  • Summary of Research

Reviews of Educational Interventions

• "Assisting Students Struggling with Reading" - from What Works Clearinghouse
• Technical Reports - from FCRR
• Reading Recovery - 2002 review of research on this program
• Review of Comprehensive Programs - 2004 review conducted by the Oregon Reading First Center of nine beginning reading programs used in the state of Oregon
• Reading Programs that Work: A Review of Programs for Pre-Kindergarten to 4th Grade - from John Schacter
• Washington State’s 4-12 Reading Intervention Materials Review (2004)

Reading Assessment

• Assessment Tools and Materials - lots of good assessment resources and advice from FCRR
• DIBELS Data System - from the University of Oregon Center on Teaching and Learning
• Assessments of Core Reading Programs - from the University of Oregon Center on Teaching and Learning
• Rubric for Assessing Effective Implementation of Reading Program - from Consortium on Reading Excellence
• Review of Progress Monitoring Tools (2007) - from the National Center on Student Progress Monitoring
• 50 Most-frequently Cited Articles in Assessment for Effective Intervention
• ISEL (Illinois Snapshots of Early Literacy) - Assessments and Scoresheets

Reading Resources

• Recommended Reading about Reading - from FCRR

Response to Intervention - Mathematics

Mathematics Interventions

• Variety of Tools and Strategies - from The Access Center
• "Assisting Students Struggling with Mathematics" - from the What Works Clearinghouse
• Intervention Resources - from National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)

Reviews of Educational Interventions

• "Effective Strategies for Teaching Students with Difficulties in Mathematics" - from National Council for Teaching Mathematics
• "Assisting Students Struggling with Mathematics" - from the What Works Clearinghouse

Mathematics Assessment

• ALEKS (Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge Spaces)

Mathematics Resources

• Response to Intervention in Math
• Articles on Intervention in Math - from NCTM