Sopris West Embraces Response to Intervention as the RtI Company.
- What is RtI?
RtI is a broad-based educational approach that starts with effective teaching and core curricula. RtI’s “signature” is the addition of assessment to identify students in need of proven intervention and to gauge how those students respond.
- How does RtI address literacy?
RtI is a schoolwide system designed to avoid inappropriate, expensive designations of “learning disability.” RtI incorporates evidence-based literacy instruction, curricula, and assessments.
- To which students does RtI apply?
Prevention-oriented RtI applies to both the general and special education student populations across three tiers of instruction serving “All,” “Some,” and “Few” students as laid out in the table below.
- How does RtI benefit students and educators?
When problems are caught and corrected early,
students are more likely to stay engaged with their core reading program, allowing educators to apply their efforts to a majority of students at grade level while providing differentiated instruction and intervention for students in need of additional help.
In theory, RtI is straightforward: the integration of well-trained teachers, effective core programs, universal screening, strategic intervention, progress monitoring, and intensive
intervention. The practice of implementing RtI, however, is another matter altogether. To help school districts begin or continue an RtI implementation, Sopris West has
developed three RtI Starter Kits, each focusing on a different grade range: primary (K–3),
intermediate (3–6), or secondary (6–9).
Who Should Use?
The RtI Starter Kits are designed for classroom teachers, reading teachers, reading coaches, reading and literacy coordinators, curriculum directors, and paraprofessionals. Ideally, the Starter Kits will augment professional
development (e.g., LETRS), effective core/alternative core programs (e.g., Read Well and LANGUAGE!, universal screening and targeted progress monitoring (e.g., DIBELS), and other supplemental instructional programs.
How to Use
Each Starter Kit provides an example of broad-based supplemental instruction and intervention
that teachers can use right away with struggling readers. As your understanding of specific student needs grows, flesh out these Starter Kits with other supplemental programs, including but not limited to REWARDS, Early Vocabulary Connections, Responsive Reading Instruction, and The Herman Method.
Kit Contents
RtI Starter Kit: Primary (grades K–3) consists of Stepping Stones to Literacy, Sound Partners Master Set, 50 Nifty Activities, and Logistics of Literacy Intervention: An RtI Planning Guide for Elementary Schools.
RtI Starter Kit: Intermediate (grades 3–6) consists of 50 Nifty Activities, Phonics and Spelling Through Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping, Vocabulary Through Morphemes, The Six-Minute Solution Primary and Intermediate , Practicing Basic Skills in Language Arts, Teaching
Basic Writing Skills, Words for Academic Writing, Collaborative Strategic Reading,
and Logistics of Literacy Intervention: An RtI Planning Guide for Elementary Schools.
RtI Starter Kit: Secondary (grades 6–9) consists of REWARDS Secondary, The Six-Minute Solution Secondary, Practicing Basic Skills in Language Arts
, The Multiple Meaning Vocabulary Program, Levels 1 and 2 (1 Teacher
Set and 1 Student Workbook for each level), Teaching Basic Writing Skills,
Words for Academic Writing, Collaborative Strategic Reading, The Key
Three Routine, and Logistics of Literacy Intervention: An RtI Planning Guide
for Middle and High Schools. |