Helpful Links

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What You Need to Know about IDEA 2004 - Response to Intervention (RTI): New Ways to Identify Specific Learning Disabilities

National Research Center on Learning Disabilities (NRCLD): Information for parents, teachers, administrators and school psychologists

RTI Action Network: Information for all on RTI and how to get started in your school

Intervention Central: RTI Resources/Interventions/Tools for Educators

RTI In The Classroom: Focus on Reading

Easy CBM: reading and math progress monitoring (K-8)

U.S Department of Education: Overview and Information on RTI, Progress Monitoring and Assessment

Maze Passage Generator: Reading Comprehension

Board Maker - Board Maker allows you to create printed materials using Picture Communication Symbols (PCS and other pictures and graphics).

Edmark Reading ProgramThe Edmark Reading computer program teaches basic reading skills to the most struggling readers and non-readers. Through short instructional steps, students are taught recognition and comprehension of words.

Fundations - Wilson Fundations for K-3 is a phonological/phonemic awareness, phonics and spelling program for the general education classroom. Teachers incorporate a 30-minute daily Fundations lesson into their language arts classroom instruction. Fundations lessons focus on carefully sequenced skills that include print knowledge, alphabet awareness, phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, decoding, vocabulary, fluency, and spelling. Additional fluency drills are included in the Fundations program.

Lindamood Phonemic Sequencing (LiPS) Program - The LiPS program successfully develops phoneme awareness--the ability to identify individual sounds and their order within words--for competence in reading, spelling, and speech. To aid you, LiPS provides: Manipulatives, step-by-step proven procedures that promote self-correction, and scripted examples of the Socratic method, to help students “discover” phonemic concepts.

Orton-Gillingham - Orton-Gillingham method of reading instruction offers a revised and expanded multi- sensory approach that provides students the opportunity for success and benefits every learner.

Phonics Lessons (Kindergarten, Gr. 1, Gr. 2 Word Study (Gr. 3)) - A complete Phonics and Word Study Curriculum for each of the primary grades with 100 mini-lessons for K-3.

Read Naturally - Read Naturally is a computer program that guides students through the steps of the program with on-screen prompts, synchronizes professional audio recordings of the stories with on-screen text, provides vocabulary-building features, pictures, animations, and sound, and automatically calculates reading and quiz answer scores.

Read Outloud - Read: OutLoud is an accessible text computer-based reader that provides below-grade level readers access to the general curriculum.

Reading Recovery - Reading Recovery^® is a short-term intervention for children who have the lowest achievement in literacy learning in the first grade. Children meet individually with a specially trained teacher for 30 minutes each day for an average of 12-20 weeks. The goal is for children to develop effective reading and writing strategies in order to work within an average range of classroom performance.

Road to the Code - Road to the Code is a successful, 11-week program for teaching phonemic awareness and letter sound correspondence. Developmentally sequenced, there are 44 15-20-minute lessons which feature different activities.

Scholastic Read 180 - is an intensive computer-based reading intervention program that helps educators confront the problem of adolescent illiteracy and special needs reading on multiple fronts, using technology, print, and professional development.

Sitton Spelling - Sitton Spelling is a unit-by-unit organization program which focuses on three strong practice elements that target the program's objective.  It develops general skills and concepts of word study, specific word study, and spelling in writing.