Back to School: Assessing my Tier 3 Students

It was back to school time for me last week.  Back to school for a literacy interventionist often means administering beginning of the year assessments. My job currently consists of spending half of my day with my Reading Recovery students and the other half providing tier 2 and tier 3 literacy academic intervention services for …

Literacy Interventions: Let’s think outside of the box

Reading Mary Howard's RTI From All Sides:  What Every Teacher Needs to Know challenged and changed my perceptions about how literacy interventions might look.  Before we begin an intervention we need to collect information about the student.  We need to be flexible in many aspects when planning for literacy interventions. Use assessments wisely When working with our tier …

Clay’s Observation Survey: A Tool to Guide Early Literacy Teaching

As a Reading Recovery teacher, I use the Observation Survey to help select which students I will be servicing for each round of Reading Recovery.  The Observation Survey is not a tool just for Reading Recovery teachers. The Observation Survey is for teachers who want to be "careful observers" of how children learn to read …