Response to Intervention (RTI) Tier II & III Students

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What specific intervention can the librarian use to improve reading and math skills of identified RTI (Response to Intervention) Tier II & III students?

Background

Mills Elementary is a Pk-5th grade elementary school and around 98% of the school is economically disadvantaged students. The school is made up of 52% Hispanics, 47% African American, and 1% White students. Tier II and III of the academic section of RTI is about 73% of students. The main concern about the RTI program is the high number of students on Tier II and III. The RTI program will allow in-depth tutoring for students in the two Tiers. The curriculum used at the school is Journeys for reading and math is Texas Mathematics by: McGraw Hill. The program will test monthly on the progression of the students reading and math by doing a reading and math mini-test. The school will have a cut-off point for both subjects to determine if the students are learning, if the test scores fall under the cut-off number, then students will come to tutoring before, during, and after school.

Mills Elementary has 8% of the students in the Special Education classes. Over the past few months, classroom size has increased and small groups are not pulled because the reading, math, and science coach are busy pulling students to learn how to pass the STAAR test. Students on Tier II and III are not being pulled consistently because of the high number of students in each Tier group. The librarian has a flexible schedule that allows for additional tutoring throughout the day.

RTi falls under the nation’s special education law. The RTI program helps school aged students that are struggling with academics or behavior, due to poor curriculum or instruction at one time in the student ...

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Appendix B

Student:

Grade: RTI INTERVENTION REPORT

Academic Year -

Meeting Date:

Teacher:

Summary of Current Intervention(s) Primary Concern:

Duration(time per week):

Progress Monitoring Data

Identify Assessments and

Attach Graph(s)

Who has been providing the interventions?

New or Additional Information

Analysis/Summary of Progress

Current Grades

Reading/ELA

Math

Science

Social Studies

Appendix C

Name:______________________________ Subject: _____________________

Week of: _____________________________

Student Learning Log

Instructions:

Use this Learning Log to keep track of what is being taught in this class and whether you have learned it.

What should I be learning this week? Respond to what was taught.

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