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Tag: response to intervention
Reading Assessment Issues
I have a bit of advice: Only administer, correct, record, and monitor reading assessments if they are quick, comprehensive and teachable and if you, the teacher,…
Quick Reading Assessments
Grades 4-8 teachers need quick reading assessments to determine "ballpark" reading levels of their students. Three assessment tools are provided free of charge.
Reading Intervention
As a reading specialist, I have worked with dozens of teachers and their students to design a reading intervention program that really works for the diverse…
Student-Centered Reading Intervention
Starting at the instructional needs of below grade level readers and establishing instructional priorities should determine the essentials of any reading intervention program. In other words,…
Moneyball and Reading Intervention
Bobby does not have the same instructional needs as does Marta. We can't use cookie cutter approaches to reading intervention if we want to make the…
Backwards Reading Intervention
How strange that a student-centered approach to learning, as advocated by many teachers and authors, does not extend to a student-centered approach to instruction. To cut…
Navigating Differentiated Instruction
A quality English-language arts curriculum designed to differentiate instruction is like a good nav system. Teachers committed to differentiated instruction need to invest in curricular resources…
Are You Ready for RtI?
Jumping into RtI and the three-tier instructional delivery model without first addressing legitimate concerns and before gaining stakeholder consensus has given a black-eye to a promising…