Respond To Intervention: What Teachers of Reading Need to Know

Respond To Intervention: What Teachers of Reading Need to Know

In this article it goes in-depth into RTI and the major steps in the intervention process. Respond to Intervention or RTI as it is known as is the initial referral and identification process for students suspected of having learning disabilities. This article gave a lot of key points in the intervention process. In the article it focuses on the measured response of the intervention rather than focusing mainly on standardized testing, which I believe is extremely important. I believe that there should be many different ways to assess a student rather then just sticking a test in front of them. The article also described how in order to know that the intervention is working effectively there has to be a way to see if the students academic performance has improved. I believe that is the main purpose of RTI, which should be too make sure that the student is improving academically on grade level.