RTI for Reading at the Secondary Level Recommended Literacy Practices and Remaining Questions

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. More than 20 reproducible tools for planning, assessment, progress monitoring, and multi-tiered instruction are featured; the large-size format facilitates photocopying.

Deborah K. Reed, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology and Special Services at the University of Texas at El Paso. She is a former middle and high school teacher who developed the Texas Adolescent Literacy Academies based on multi-tiered reading instruction and intervention. She is a recipient of the Outstanding Researcher of the Year award from the Council for Learning Disabilities. Jade Wexler, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Maryland. A former high school special education reading teacher, she serves on the editorial board of Learning Disability Quarterly and is a recipient of the Albert J. Harris award from the International Reading Association. Sharon Vaughn, PhD, is H. E. Hartfelder/Southland Corp. 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.

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