1. What We Know
Resources - Application Tomorrow
– The Literacy Web
– www.literacy.uconn.edu
– Reading Rockets
– www.readingrockets.org
– Intervention Central
– http://www.interventioncentral.org/
– Reading is Fundamental
– http://www.rif.org/

2. RtI - Tutorials
The IRIS Center
– RtI - An Overview
– RtI - Assessment
– RtI - Reading
Instruction
– RtI - Putting it All
Together
http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu

3. Progress Monitoring
National Center on Progress Monitoring
– Tools for comparison
– Tools for understanding ways to complete
– Resources for application
Teacher
Family
Administrator

4. Special Connections
CBM Module
Instructional
Practices
Behavioral
Interventions
http://www.specialconnections.ku.edu

5. How do we Structure our
Interventions?
Framework for Consideration

7. Principle One
Supporting Recognition Learning
– Provide multiple examples
– Highlight critical features
– Provide multiple media formats
– Support background contexts

8. Some Examples
Reading
– Readplease.com
– Texthelp.com
Setting an Anchor
– http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/
Representing Material
– http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/NAV/vlibrary.html

9. Principle Two
Support Strategic Learning
– Provide flexible models of skilled
performance
– Provide opportunities to practice with
supports
– Provide ongoing, relevant feedback
– Offer flexible opportunities for
demonstrating skill

10. Some Examples
Practice
– http://www.inspiration.com
Skill demonstration
– Microsoft’s PPT - Star Wars
– Inspire Data
– Apple’s - iMovie
– Microsoft’s Movie Maker
– PhotoStory

11. Principle Three
Support Affective Learning - Provide
alternative means for engagement
– Offer choices of content and tools
– Offer adjustable levels of challenge
– Offer choices of rewards
– Offer choices of learning context

12. Some Examples
Software Products - Adjustable levels
– http://www.techmatrix.org/
– Type to Learn
Learning context
– Hands on
– Connect to previous understanding
Choice of Rewards
– What makes you tick?

13. UDL Toolkit
http://udltechtoolkit.wikispaces.com
http://readilyaccessibletools.wikispaces.com/
– Learn more about UDL
– UDL-based solutions tied to reading, organization,
writing, etc.
– Wikis are free to all of us
• Disseminate information
• Demonstrate knowledge
• Communicate with parents/students/general community