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August 13, 2009

RTI Questions – from Reading Today

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I got my copy of Reading Today in the mail a couple of hours ago. There’s a front page story on questions that reading professionals should ask at their school about Response to Intervention (RTI). I found it encouraging because at my school we have pretty good answers for most of the questions.

The questions (my paraphrase) are:

  • What is your school doing about RTI?
  • What approach to RTI is your school taking?
  • How are you monitoring student progress?
  • What are we doing to ensure that the classroom instruction (which could prevent the need for intervention) is “increasingly effective.”
  • What specific interventions do we have available for students and why are we using those interventions?
The Reading Today piece has some useful tips for how to think about answers. If you’re not a member of the International Reading Association, find me and I’ll let you look at my copy of the newspaper…

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