Intervention Tool Chart :: Reading

Looking for an intervention for your students?  The Intervention Tools Chart is designed to be used by educators as a resource to locate interventions, instructional practices, and learning strategies that can be used within an RtI process.  Please note:  the listing of specific tools is not meant as an endorsement by the NYS RtI MS DP or the NYSED.  Rather, it is up to the consumer to research selected tools for evidence of effectiveness.  The chart contains three types of tools that are either free or available for purchase:  commercial programs, instructional practices, and learning strategies.

Title
Component
Tier
Grade

ClassWide Peer Tutoring

Instructional Practice
Comprehension, Oral Reading Fluency, Vocabulary
Tier I,II
1st—12th

According to What Works Clearinghouse, ClassWide Peer Tutoring (CWPT) is a peer-assisted instructional strategy designed to be integrated into any existing reading curriculum. CWPT provides students with increased opportunities to practice reading skills by asking questions and receiving immediate feedback from a peer tutor. Pairs of students take turns tutoring each other to reinforce concepts and skills initially taught by the teacher. Thus, students will fulfill both the role of the tutor and tutee. The teacher creates age-appropriate materials, taking into account the students’ language skills and disabilities.

 

This is an instructional practice. An instruction practice is a teaching method that guides interactions in the classroom and supports student learning. Instructional practices involve an educator using particular method, practice, or protocol during instruction.

Graphosyllabic Analysis

Instructional Practice
Phonics & Decoding
Tier I,II,III
1st—12th

Graphosyllabic analysis is a decoding strategy that uses five steps for syllable analysis. This strategy uses one syllabication rule—the need to create a separate syllable for each vowel sound.

Paired Reading

Instructional Practice
Oral Reading Fluency
Tier II
Pre-K—12th

In paired reading, students read aloud to each other with more fluent readers paired with those that are less fluent. Paired reading can be used with any book or text in a variety of content areas, and can be implemented in a variety of ways.

 

This is an instructional practice. An instruction practice is a teaching method that guides interactions in the classroom and supports student learning. Instructional practices involve an educator using particular method, practice, or protocol during instruction.

Partner Reading

Instructional Practice
Oral Reading Fluency
Tier I,II
3rd—12th

Partner Reading is a cooperative learning strategy in which a pair of students work together to read aloud.  The Partner Reading strategy allows students to take turns reading and provide each other with positive feedback as a way to monitor comprehension.  Partner Reading provides a model of fluent reading and helps students learn decoding skills by offering positive feedback.  It provides direct opportunities for a teacher to circulate in the class, observe students, and offer individual remediation.

Phrase Drill Procedure

Instructional Practice
Oral Reading Fluency
Tier III
2nd—12th

Phrase Drill Procedure allows students to practice misread words in order to increase their reading fluency.

Reading While Listening

Instructional Practice
Comprehension, Oral Reading Fluency
Tier II,III
K—12th

Reading While Listening involves practicing reading while listening to a proficient reader (or an audio recording) of a fluent reading of the text and pointing at the words.

Reciprocal Teaching

Instructional Practice
Comprehension
Tier I
4th—12th

Reciprocal teaching is an interactive instructional practice. This practice can be used to improve comprehension; teachers and students take turns leading a dialogue around sections of a text and apply four comprehension strategies (generating questions, summarizing, clarifying, predicting) to obtain meaning from a text.

Repeated Reading

Instructional Practice
Comprehension, Oral Reading Fluency
Tier I,II,III
1st—12th

Repeated reading is a strategic approach designed to increase reading fluency and comprehension. During repeated reading, students read and re-read a selected short passage until they reach a satisfactory level of fluency.

Retelling

Instructional Practice
Comprehension
Tier I
1st—12th

In retelling, students will retell the events in a passage they have either read or heard.

Vocabulary Logs

Instructional Practice
Vocabulary
Tier I
4th—12th

Vocabulary Logs are a graphic organizer of learned words that students can use to deepen their understanding of words beyond the context of a reading selection. Using vocabulary logs, students can review/revisit learned words and continue to strengthen the understanding of word meanings. Vocabulary logs can be used in conjunction with any other vocabulary strategies or in Tier 1 instruction with the whole class.

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