Full Description
Literacy researcher and best-selling author Dick Allington offers clear recommendations and a teacher-friendly framework to guide classroom teachers in designing response to intervention programs. KEY TOPICS: To help teachers acquire a fuller understanding of the complexity of response to intervention designs, literacy researcher and best-selling author Dick Allington offers clear recommendations to guide classroom teachers in designing response to instruction (RtI) programs such that struggling readers will develop their reading proficiencies to match those of their achieving peers. MARKET: Written for administrators and teachers, reading specialists, school psychologists, and classroom teachers who serve kindergarten through ninth grade.
Contents
&n> PrefaceChapter 1: Why struggling readers continue to struggle.Chapter 2: Where to begin an intervention plan.Chapter 3: Match between reader and text level.Chapter 4: Dramatically expand reading activity.Chapter 5: Very small groups or tutoring.Chapter 6: Coordination of intervention with core classroom.Chapter 7: Expert teacher delivers intervention.Chapter 8: Focus instruction on meta-cognition and meaning.Chapter 9: Student access and choice of reading materials.Chapter 10: Questions about intervention design and delivery.AppendixBibliography
