Fifteen Elements

Teacher teams

Leadership, administration and/or teachers who have a solid understanding of how to teach reading and writing

A comprehensive and coordinated literacy program

Build Prior Knowledge then Increase with Text

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Part of the Solution

Planning teams– Scheduling intervention– Scheduling interaction

• Need for collaboration skills

– Capacity building– collaboration

Considering data and the continued use of data driven decisions

Activity Time

RtI Interventions

Let’s take a few minutes and consider the interventions we are currently using or considering:– Tier One– Tier Two– Tier Three

What are some?What is the Research behind these interventions?

RtI Resources on the Web

Best Evidence Encyclopedia (B.E.E.)This website offersreliable, unbiased information onhigh-qualityevaluationsof educationalprograms.

Big Ideas in Beginning ReadingFocuses on BIG IDEAS of early literacy:

phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, fluency with text, vocabulary,

and comprehension.

Oregon’s Big Ideas

Fl Center for Reading Research

FCRR Key

Type of Program

1 = Core Reading Program

2 = Supplemental or Intervention Program

3 = Technology-Based Program

4 = Program that may be implemented by a tutor or mentor

5 = Intervention or Remedial Program for students above third grade

Reading ComponentPA = Phonemic AwarenessP = PhonicsF = FluencyV=VocabularyC = Comprehension

+ = some aspects of this component taught and/or practiced

++ = most aspects+++ = all aspectsn/a = not addressed

What We Know

National Institute for Literacy - nifl.gov

– The National Institute for Literacy, a federal agency, provides leadership on literacy issues, including the improvement of reading instruction for children, youth, and adults.

What We Know

What Works Clearninghouse– ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc– Institute of Education Science’s Database

sharing what we know about related research specific to standards and the research arm of NCLB.

RtI Action Network

A program of the National Center for Learning Disabilities Offers a guide educators and families in the large-scale implementation of RTIAccess research reports– How to tips– Temperature of what is happening in the

field

National Center on RtI

Technical assistance to states and districts and building the capacity of states to assist districts in implementing proven models for RTI.Reports– Products for consideration– Evidence-based practices for High School– Considerations for implementation

Advancing Literacy

Initiative by the Carnegie Corporation

Funded reports and research on– adolescent literacy – What works– What we need to be doing at the

middle/high school level

Usable Knowledge

Using Data to Improve Instruction

Using Data to Improve Instruction

Using Data to Raise Student Achievement

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What We Know

KU’s Center on Research and Learning– http://www.ku-crl.org/projects/

Strategic Instruction Model– http://www.ku-crl.org/sim/