Response to Intervention

http://www.doe.virginia.gov/VDOE/studentsrvcs/RTI/

Virginia Department of Education

On December 3, 2004, Congress reauthorized the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA 2004). The language that Congress uses in IDEA 2004 and No Child Left Behind (NCLB) stresses the use of professionally sound interventions and instruction based on defensible research, as well as the delivery of effective academic and behavior programs to improve student achievement. Provisions in IDEA 2004 enable school divisions to use scientific, research-based interventions as another method of identifying students with specific learning disabilities (SLD). This process is generally known as Response to Intervention (RTI).

RTI is a comprehensive student-centered assessment and intervention model used to identify and address individual student difficulties before referral to special education. In using the RTI approach, students receive research-based intervention and assessment. Rather than waiting for a student to fail, interventions and assessments are designed to meet the needs of each student with individualized instruction.

This weblink contains the Virginia Guidance Document and Powerpoints etc from RtI institutes held across the state.

http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/

Assisting Students Struggling with Reading: Response to Intervention (RtI) and Multi-Tier Intervention in the Primary Grades
from the What Works Clearing House, Institute of Education Sciences (IES), US Department of Education

This guide offers five specific recommendations to help educators identify struggling readers and implement evidence-based strategies to promote their reading achievement. Teachers and reading specialists can utilize these strategies to implement RtI and multi-tier intervention methods and frameworks at the classroom or school level. Recommendations cover how to screen students for reading problems, design a multi-tier intervention program, adjust instruction to help struggling readers, and monitor student progress. Click here to access the PDF document.

http://www.corwinpress.com/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book231057&

Reading Strategies for Elementary Students With Learning Difficulties
Strategies for RTI
Second Edition

William Bender and Martha Larkin
Corwin Press January 2009

A one-stop source of proven reading strategies to use with RTI!

This second edition of a best-selling resource helps general and special education teachers integrate approaches for strengthening reading skills with procedures for Response to Intervention (RTI). Based on the latest research, these practical instructional strategies can be used with students with learning disabilities of any kind as well as with any student who struggles in reading.

Is accompanied by a kit for professional development:  http://www.corwinpress.com/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book232365&