Agenda+and+Overview

This project addresses the BOE Goal associated with improved student achievement in Literacy. It also addresses the district administrative goal of achieving the Implementation stage of the RTI Configuration map. There are direct connections to the map in the areas of Problem Solving Teams, Three –tiered Interventions, and Research-based best practice.
 * 2009 Extended Work Year Project: RTI Literacy Toolkit **
 * Introduction: **

This project comes directly from the RTI Institute for Literacy which was attended by Teams from each of Webster’s Elementary schools. The Toolkit will help to build Tier I capacity for classroom teachers with a focus on selection of interventions that will target a specific student challenge with literacy. This will be a valuable Pre-IST guide for classroom teachers and a potential reference tool during an initial IST meeting. This product will support the work of our Student Intervention Collaborative Team which has focused on the creation of a daily block of WIN Time (What I Need Time) for each grade level. The Toolkit should be helpful for the teachers as they provide Tier I interventions while the Tier II and III providers address students with more intensive needs.  Our final product will be an RTI tool kit for Tier I problem-solving associated with the Big 5 skill areas of reading: · Phonemic Awareness · Phonics · Fluency · Vocabulary · Comprehension
 * Final Product Description: **

The tool kits will address the following components for each of the Big 5 skill areas: · Identify characteristics important to developing a better understanding of each skill area such as prerequisite skills · Identify questions useful in the diagnosing exactly where the breakdown in skill occurs · Identify 1 or more types of Curriculum Based Measures (CBM) and their corresponding norms used to assess the skill · Identify instructional strategies pertaining to the specific skill Margaret Garritano Kindergarten Maureen Weinmann Kindergarten Judith Molyneaux First Grade Sheila O’Hanlon First Grade Patti Pawluk Second Grade Jennifer Shepherd Third Grade Heidi Stauber Third Grade Amy Braband Fourth Grade Brenda Green Fourth Grade Mary Rehor Fifth Grade Elizabeth McCusker Mental Health Sandy Clement Library Teacher Rebecca Hyland Speech Language Pathologist
 * Participants **Thanks to the efforts of the following people:


 * Background Information for RTI Literacy:**