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RTI from All Sides: What Every Teacher Needs to Know
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This book is desperately needed in districts and state departments everywhere. It is loaded with interventions that are right for kids and right for the educators who serve them. It profiles RTI as a framework for increasing intentional instruction…keeping the emphasis on knowledgeable educators rather than “programs.” If this book could become a prerequisite to implementation, I fully believe that the goals of RTI may well be realized. Linda Hoyt
Author of Revisit, Reflect, Retell, Updated Edition
Response to Intervention (RTI) is here, but what do teachers need to know about it? As Mary Howard investigated that question, she was the more she knew about it, the more this “teacher’s teacher” was excited by it. That’s because RTI promises to use the great teaching you know to catch readers before they falter. With RTI from All Sides, she shows how to make RTI live up to its promise.
In RTI from All Sides, Howard points the way toward thoughtful and effective RTI―and away from potentially dangerous, rigid implementations. She offers suggestions for instructional design, collaboration, and troubleshooting―even for avoiding mediocre RTI products. Most important, she demonstrates how to apply the principles you trust to
teaching reading and writing in authentic ways to help students choose just-right books that set them up to read in and out of school using simple, ongoing assessments to know when to intensify instruction inside and outside the regular classroom differentiating reading instruction to maintain the flow between whole-class, small-group, and one-on-one instruction while meeting specific students’ needs designing interventions to amplify instruction instead of sidelining students to skill-and-drill that takes them further from engaged, proficient reading coordinating efforts within and between instructional supports to emphasize acceleration through the targeted instruction students need to succeed. In addition, Howard includes helpful questions that lead book study groups to a better understanding of RTI, its structure, its implementation, and its daily application.
RTI has the potential to return instructional decision-making to teachers and to galvanize schools to design effective practices for helping all readers achieve―especially those who struggle. Read RTI from All Sides and get the information you need to create a safety net that can save struggling readers before the learning gap widens forever.
This book is desperately needed in districts and state departments everywhere. It is loaded with interventions that are right for kids and right for the educators who serve them. It profiles RTI as a framework for increasing intentional instruction…keeping the emphasis on knowledgeable educators rather than “programs.” If this book could become a prerequisite to implementation, I fully believe that the goals of RTI may well be realized. Linda Hoyt
Author of Revisit, Reflect, Retell, Updated Edition
Response to Intervention (RTI) is here, but what do teachers need to know about it? As Mary Howard investigated that question, she was the more she knew about it, the more this “teacher’s teacher” was excited by it. That’s because RTI promises to use the great teaching you know to catch readers before they falter. With RTI from All Sides, she shows how to make RTI live up to its promise.
In RTI from All Sides, Howard points the way toward thoughtful and effective RTI―and away from potentially dangerous, rigid implementations. She offers suggestions for instructional design, collaboration, and troubleshooting―even for avoiding mediocre RTI products. Most important, she demonstrates how to apply the principles you trust to
teaching reading and writing in authentic ways to help students choose just-right books that set them up to read in and out of school using simple, ongoing assessments to know when to intensify instruction inside and outside the regular classroom differentiating reading instruction to maintain the flow between whole-class, small-group, and one-on-one instruction while meeting specific students’ needs designing interventions to amplify instruction instead of sidelining students to skill-and-drill that takes them further from engaged, proficient reading coordinating efforts within and between instructional supports to emphasize acceleration through the targeted instruction students need to succeed. In addition, Howard includes helpful questions that lead book study groups to a better understanding of RTI, its structure, its implementation, and its daily application.
RTI has the potential to return instructional decision-making to teachers and to galvanize schools to design effective practices for helping all readers achieve―especially those who struggle. Read RTI from All Sides and get the information you need to create a safety net that can save struggling readers before the learning gap widens forever.
160 pages, Paperback
First published April 20, 2009
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October 1, 2018
A great introduction to RTI, but I have so many questions that I must continue to pursue!
August 18, 2018
Very informative.
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May 28, 2020
Really helpful overview!
March 30, 2015
This book gives a general overview of RTI. If you are new to the RTI game, then this book is for you. If you are looking for something more specific or examples of interventions then you may want to skip this one. With taking the general, introductory focus of the book in mind, it was very informative for an RTI beginner.
October 15, 2011
A great overall book of RtI and the huge impact on Tier 1 (classroom) instruction. Decided to use it for an all school book study and we've had many, many great discussions.
June 6, 2012
Some ideas that I can use... maybe. I just wish there were more specifics as to what to use for Universal Screenings and specific interventions.
October 17, 2012
Had to read this for work as a member of the RTI (Response to Intervention) team at all 3 schools. Not amazing by any means, but had some useful info & was a quick, easy read.
March 17, 2013
I loved this book. Easy and applicable read. Loved the six T's.
June 20, 2014
This book was good from a k-3 perspective however it is grounded more in one teacher's opinion than in the research.
March 2, 2016
This is a good book for teachers wanting a basic overview of RTI that reaffirms the important role of teachers in assessment and instruction.
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