Response to Intervention (Reading)

When you return to school in the fall, many of you will be implementing RTI (Response to Intervention) in your school.  You may be wondering, "What strategies or interventions am I going to use to help my struggling students?"  I know I have often wondered, "What else can I possibly do with a particular student in Tier II, that I haven't tried already?"  Teachers need intervention ideas to make RTI successful.  The problem, teachers often don't have time to research interventions that can be used with struggling students.  In this blog I hope to simplify the RTI process for you by providing intervention ideas and links to helpful resources.  Reading interventions are the focus of this post. 


Phonemic Awareness
Reading Rockets

Decoding Interventions
Reading Rockets
Reading a-z

Vocabulary
Reading Rockets

Fluency Interventions
Busy Teachers Cafe
Intervention Central
Reading Rockets

Comprehension Interventions
Intervention Central
Reading Rockets

Many of you have also wondered about what to do with the rest of the class while you are doing RTI interventions with a small group of students.  There is a book called The Daily 5 and a companion book The Cafe Book that you may be interested in reading.  I have included some videos below which give you a taste of what the daily 5 and the cafe is all about. You can decide if it might be something you find useful.  Both of these books have ideas for center activities as well as ideas for interventions.

Interview regarding "The Cafe Model".

The Daily 5