Reading Acquisition: Response to Intervention

When the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA, was rewritten in 2004, a newfound commitment to helping struggling students make progress in the general reading curriculum was born. Known as Response to Intervention (RTI), the model mandated a new way to determine if a student does not perform at grade level owing to a lack of instruction, and which students require special education as the result of a disability.

At the core of RTI is an emphasis on effective instruction and early, data-driven intervention to maximize student achievement--and technology is making this intervention possible. Using reading software that has a built-in assessment component can help educators track and monitor their students' progress and adjust their instruction accordingly, truly ensuring that no child is left behind. And as RTI has proven its value as an instructional model, many schools have applied this philosophy to their curriculum in general.

To help ensure your students' success in reading, eSchool News, with the generous support of Voyager Expanded Learning, has compiled the following list of news articles and other helpful resources on the RTI process and its use nationwide. --The Editors

 

eSchool News Articles

  • Reading expert: Don't forget fluency
    Tue, Jan 30, 2007 Primary Topic Channel: Reading/language artsIn an interview with eSchool News, noted reading expert Jon Bower, CEO of Soliloquy Learning, says 100-percent reading proficiency for all students is the key to global competitiveness--and "the only way to do that is through technology." [ Read More ]
  • Study: Reading First spurs achievement gains
    Mon, Sep 25, 2006 Primary Topic Channel: Funding
    The internal audit of Reading First by the federal Education Department was released just days after another report, from the independent Center on Education Policy (CEP), suggested the program is having a significant impact on student achievement. [ Read More ]

     

  • Formative assessment rates high at FETC 2005
    Mon, Feb 14, 2005 Primary Topic Channel: Assessment & Evaluation
    Continuous ("formative") assessment, the integration of assessment and instructional management, and the explosion of multilingual instructional software were some of the key themes that stood out among exhibitors at the 25th annual Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC), held Jan. 26-28 in Orlando. [ Read More ]

  • Rochester City schools take assessment to another level
    Wed, Sep 12, 2007 Primary Topic Channel: Assessment & Evaluation
    New York state's Rochester City School District faces many of the same challenges as other large urban school districts nationwide--including high student mobility, large numbers of students from single-parent and non-English-speaking families, and pervasive poverty. The district has 34,000 preK-12 students and 15,000 adult students in continuing-education programs, with 3,600 teachers scattered across 39 elementary schools, 19 secondary schools, and several alternative education programs. At the same time, it is subject to increased requirements for accountability, despite its limited resources. [ Read More ]

  • Florida adopts open-content reading platform
    Thu, Jan 24, 2008Primary Topic Channel: Open courseware
    Tired of investing in expensive textbooks and proprietary software programs, Florida education officials are looking to an open online-learning platform to teach young students basic reading skills. [ Read More ]

 

 

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