RTI for Reading at the Secondary Level

Recommended Literacy Practices and Remaining Questions
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4625-0356-8
Verlag: Guilford Publications

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 205 mm x 266 mm, Gewicht: 571 g

Reihe: What Works for Special-Needs Learners

Grounded in the best current knowledge, this book shows how to implement response to intervention (RTI) in middle and high school contexts. Detailed guidelines are presented for teaching reading comprehension, vocabulary, and other aspects of literacy across the content areas, and for providing effective interventions for students who require additional support. The authors describe RTI procedures that are specifically tailored to the needs of struggling adolescent learners and that take into account the challenges and logistics of secondary-level implementation. The volume features 26 reproducible tools for planning, assessment, progress monitoring, and multi-tiered instruction; the large-size format facilitates photocopying.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reed, Deborah K

Wexler, Jade

Vaughn, Sharon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Weiterführende Schulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sonderpädagogik, Heilpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: Response to Intervention with Secondary Students: Why the Issues Are Different Than with Elementary Students, Sharon Vaughn and Jack M. Fletcher Introduction 1. RTI in Reading: An Overview 2. Step 1: Implementing Effective Tier 1 Instruction 3. Step 2: Establishing Interventions in Reading 4. Step 3: Guidelines for Tiers 2 and 3 5. Step 4: Refining Implementation of RTI Epilogue. Appendix A. Sample Middle School Schedules: Grades 6–8 Appendix B. Sample Junior High Schedules: Grades 7–8 Appendix C. Sample High School Schedule Appendix D. Examples of Vocabulary and Comprehension Strategies for Content-Area Instruction Appendix E. Examples of Reading Intervention Strategies Appendix F. Resources for Implementing RTI at the Secondary Level

Über Autor(innen)

Deborah K. Reed, PhD, is Director of the Iowa Reading Research Center and Associate Professor at the University of Iowa. She is a former middle and high school teacher who has developed numerous instructional materials and professional development programs on adolescent literacy. She is a recipient of the Outstanding Researcher Award from the Council for Learning Disabilities and a past president of the organization.
Jade Wexler, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education at the University of Maryland. Her current research focuses on designing reading interventions to support adolescents with reading difficulties and disabilities in the content-area and supplemental intensive intervention settings. She also designs and evaluates professional development and schoolwide service-delivery models to support the implementation of evidence-based literacy practices in middle schools. Dr. Wexler has published over 45 articles focusing on adolescent literacy interventions. She is a former high school special education and reading teacher.Sharon Vaughn, PhD, is H. E. Hartfelder/Southland Corporation Regents Chair of Human Development and Executive Director of the Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk at the University of Texas at Austin. Her numerous awards include, most recently, the Jeannette E. Fleischner Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Learning Disabilities, awarded by the Division for Learning Disabilities of the Council for Exceptional Children.