Response to Intervention

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Response to Intervention

• October 6, 2008

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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.

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

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

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Tier 1? Tier 2?

• within the regular reading/math time
• small group intervention by classroom teacher

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

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Tier Forms
Tier Summary Form

• RTI Documentation Form

• Tier Procedures

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Where are the forms?
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Where are the forms?
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Coming Attractions

• Strategies
• Starring The Classroom teacher
• This feature is rated LSI for
• Lesson Strategies for Intervention

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ELA Reading StrategyActivate Connect BGK

• 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

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Monitor Comprehension

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

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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 its about thinking and
  talking and learning.
• -Tanny McGregor, Comprehension Connections

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Reading is Thinking
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Monitor your inner voice

• I am talking to the book, having a conversation
  with the pictures and words

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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.

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Its 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

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Constructing Meaning

• Text-to-Self Connection
• Text-to-Text Connection

Text Thinking Real Reading
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Tier Math Resources
Materials for Tier 2 should be DIFFERENT than
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

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

• Positive Interdependence
• Individual Accountability
• Equal Participation
• Simultaneous Interaction

• Basic Principles

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Inside Outside Circle

• 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

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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

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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

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Numbered Heads Together

• Group students.
• Pose a question.
• Students work to answer the questionmaking sure
  that all group members know the answer.
• Teacher calls on a student at random to answer
  for the group.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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Nonlinguistic Representations

• Graphic representations Pictures
• Physical models
• Kinesthetic activities

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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

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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
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Other non-linguistic strategies

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

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How is RTI Different?

• Intervention always begins in the general
  education classroom

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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.