Response to Intervention

Response to Intervention October 6, 2008

Coming Attractions A Quick Review Starring The Classroom teacher This feature is rated “QAB” for Quick as a Bunny. The stars review RTI procedures and about Tier 1 & 2 interventions in detail.

Back to Basics A Always begin with universal screening B Be sure to place struggling students in Tier 1 C Carefully document interventions

Document • results of universal screening • at-risk students identified • progress toward meeting grade-level performance goals (monitor progress & set new short term goals)

Tier 1? Tier 2? • outside the regular reading/math time • flexible small group intervention by classroom teacher or specialist • 30 minutes at least 3 times per week • within the regular reading/math time • small group intervention by classroom teacher

Tier Forms Tier Summary Form RTI Documentation Form Tier Procedures

Where are the forms?

Coming Attractions Strategies Starring The Classroom teacher This feature is rated “LSI” for Lesson Strategies for Intervention

Students need to understand: what it means to make a connection with the text their personal experience is important to understanding what they read and learn learn to listen to their inner voice to make sense of text ELA Reading Strategy:Activate & Connect BGK

Monitor Comprehension • Monitor your inner voice to focus your thinking • Make thinking visible • Show how a connection aids understanding

Express your Thinking Connect & Engage Students: • have students look at the cover for a moment and think – not say or talk aloud- about what is happening • then have them turn and talk about what their inner voice was saying to them about the cover When it comes to meaningful instruction, it is never really about stuff; it’s about thinking and talking and learning. -Tanny McGregor, Comprehension Connections

Reading is Thinking

Monitor your inner voice I am talking to the book, having a conversation with the pictures and words

Model Text to Self Connection “ as I read the text, or hear the words, my inner voice hears the words… “that reminds me of ”… that signals that I am making a connection, and that connection helps me better understand what I am reading.”

It’s the Thought that Counts The purpose of making connections is to get a better understanding of the story, not just to have a connection. Use Thinksheets

Constructing Meaning • Text-to-Self Connection • Text-to-Text Connection Text + Thinking = Real Reading

Tier Math Resources Materials for Tier 2 should be DIFFERENTthan those used with students for Tier 1 • Suggested Resources: • Roads to Reasoning • Nimble with Numbers • AIM 3, 4, 5 • Suggestions Strategies • Cooperative Learning • Graphic Organizers

Tier 2 Math Strategies Research-based strategies Nonlinguistic Representations Cooperative Learning

Cooperative Learning • Positive Interdependence • Individual Accountability • Equal Participation • Simultaneous Interaction Basic Principles

Have class stand in concentric circles. Teacher stands in the middle and asks a question for the inside circle-they respond to their partner in the outside circle. Repeat process for outside circle. Rotate Inside Outside Circle

Individual Accountability • Each person must be responsible for his part in the structure • Assess individual effort • No group grades • Eliminates the free-rider and the workhorse student roles

Find Someone Who • Students look for someone who can answer a question • Students share information • Students check for agreement • Students move to a new partner

Numbered Heads Together #2 • Group students. • Pose a question. • Students work to answer the question—making sure that all group members know the answer. • Teacher calls on a student at random to answer for the group. #1 #3 #4

Numbered Heads Examples Spring City Elementary school has 253 girls, 348 boys, and 30 teachers. How many children attend Spring City Elementary School?

Formations • Students move their bodies to reinforce a concept/content information • For example: human bar graphs, shapes, frequency, etc.

Formations Example • Take a piece of blank paper with you • Form a line by birth day from January 1 to December 31 at the far right. • Now make lines according to the months. • Place your paper on the floor where you are standing. • Stand back and look at your graph.

Talking Chips • Students are given a token • Each student places a token in the center when they wish to speak • All the tokens must be placed in the center before a student may contribute again. • Many variations of talking chips exist.

Pairs Check • Partners work on a worksheet, one student working the problem while the other checks the process/answer. Switch roles. • Once the problem has been “checked” circle the check mark. • Partners meet with another duo to check answers.

Pairs Check Variation • Partners are assigned roles of “Gopher” and “reader/writer” 1. Gopher gets problem and sticky note 2. Reader/Writer reads 3. Partners solve & compare answers 4. Reader/writer writes common answer and they exchanges roles

Making Connections NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y., Aug. 7- An eight pound boy, her twenty-eight child, was born today to Mrs. Philip E. Webster is 44 years old and was married when she was 16. Of her children there were three pairs of twins and two sets of triplets. Each of the twenty-eight are still alive. How many months of married life was she NOT pregnant? Actual newspaper story from New York, 1919

Nonlinguistic Representations • Graphic representations & Pictures • Physical models • Kinesthetic activities

Graphic Representations and Pictures • Students needs to represent their work with manipulatives with pictures and graphical representations. Tricycles have 3 wheels. Show how many are on 3 tricycles

Physical Models • Manipulatives can be used to build physical models Use color tiles to build all of the possible arrangements of 12 rectangular tiles Can you build more? One array

Other non-linguistic strategies • Frame a question • I Spy Foldable • Info Ball Game • Stepping Stones • Go-Together Puzzles

How is RTI Different? Intervention always begins in the general education classroom

Coming Attractions Strategies, the Sequel Starring The Classroom teacher This feature is rated “FSI” for Finally Something Interesting. The final strategies will be discussed February 20.

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