What really matters in response to intervention : research-based designs / Richard L. Allington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allington, Richard L.

Series:

What really matters

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Individualized reading instruction.

Reading.

Physical Description:

vii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Pearson, [2009]

Summary:

Unlike any other book on the topic, What Really Matters in Response to Intervention: Research-Based Designs presents a teacher-friendly framework for how to design response to intervention programs that effectively support struggling readers. 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 intervention (RTI) programs such that struggling readers will develop their reading proficiencies to match those of their achieving peers.

This book provides teachers with a comprehensive discussion of the factors that inhibit struggling, disabled, and English language learners from achieving and offers a number of research-based instructional strategies and routines for turning struggling readers into achieving readers. Teachers will be inspired and confident to design response to intervention programs!

In their well-known and much welcomed thought-provoking style, Dick Allington and Pat Cunningham bring you the best research-based instructional advice available. Each of the brief and inexpensive books in the What Really Matters series features what Dick and Pat know about one aspect of teaching and learning to read independently with understanding. To learn more about the series see the inside front cover.

Contents:

Why struggling readers continue to struggle

Beginning an intervention plan

Matching reader and text level

Dramatically expand reading activity

Using very small groups or tutoring

Coordinating intervention with core classroom

Delivering intervention by expert teacher

Focusing instruction on meta-cognition and meaning

Using texts that are interesting to students

Questions and answers about interventions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-202) and index.

ISBN:

9780205627547

0205627544

OCLC:

216941201