How to use Readings or Math Test Items as assessments and interventions for RTI. 

You are a fourth grade teacher; you've administered the district screening tool, or your students' third grade teachers have passed on a list of students that have been identified as being at risk for academic failure.

You have a binder for each student in the list. You have a binder of your interventions and progress monitoring tools (pdf). This tool is also here (web page). You may print as many copies of the tool as you need and with the Readings and Test Item files you have license to print up to 25 copies.

You have Readings and Math Test Items in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Grade levels. You have enlisted a paraprofessional, coach or peer tutors to implement your tutoring sessions with the at risk students.

The students are working through the items from easiest to more difficult, notes and scores are kept in your binder, with detailed notes about improvements, comments about strategies that have worked. You identified skills you wanted to strengthen after the first or second reading set, comprehension and fluency. You know enough now, to pull out curriculum based interventions with the series you use in the district (Prentice Hall, Glencoe Math). This brings the student back up to Tier I instruction. If there is still failure, after a reasonable amount of time, with other interventions from you and your tutors, you now have the data to move on to Tier III interventions or referral to Special Education.

The interventions you are using have been selected for their grade level integrity, you know the sets you have are for the grades you are working toward. A student who begins in a 2nd Grade intervention set moves up within your classroom tutoring protocol, and starts succeeding in 3rd Grade interventions. You've documented this success and celebrated it. You have now created accountability for yourself.

Here are some resources for creating a peer or coach tutoring program in the classroom.

Research Model

Peer tutoring

Small group Math intervention

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