Elementary Response to Intervention (RtI)
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more roses.
–George Eliot, 19th century British author
–George Eliot, 19th century British author
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Sites must take appropriate steps to ensure that teachers have the knowledge and skills necessary to implement their RtI programs and that such programs are implemented in a way that is consistent with the specific structure and components of the model.
In 2016-17, all teachers who are providing literacy intervention instruction (ARTIFs, Literacy Specialists, etc.) will participate in monthly meetings of the Support for all Readers Initiative. Learn more about SFUSD’s English Language Arts Tiered RtI Model for Elementary. |
SFUSD's Tiered RtI Model for Elementary
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SFUSD Academic Response to Intervention Facilitators (ARTiF) Roles and Responsibilities
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Humanities’ Recommended Reading:
Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children’s Learning by Peter H. Johnston
In productive classrooms, teachers don't just teach children skills: they build emotionally and relationally healthy learning communities. Teachers create intellectual environments that produce not only technically competent students, but also caring, secure, actively literate human beings. Choice Words shows how teachers accomplish this using their most powerful teaching tool: language. Throughout, Peter Johnston provides examples of apparently ordinary words, phrases, and uses of language that are pivotal in the orchestration of the classroom. Grounded in a study by accomplished literacy teachers, the book demonstrates how the things we say (and don't say) have surprising consequences for what children learn and for who they become as literate people. Through language, children learn how to become strategic thinkers, not merely learning the literacy strategies. 
RTI from All Sides by Mary Howard
In RTI from All Sides, Howard points the way toward thoughtful and effective RTI-and away from potentially dangerous, rigid implementations. |
Response to Intervention: Principles and Strategies for Effective Practice by Rachel Brown-Chidsey & Mark W. Steege
This bestselling work provides practitioners with a complete guide to implementing response to intervention (RTI) in schools. 
What Really Matters in Response to Intervention by Richard L. Allington
To help teachers acquire a fuller understanding of the complexity of response to intervention designs, literacy researcher and best-selling author Richard Allington offers clear recommendations to guide classroom teachers in designing response to instruction (RtI) programs such that struggling readers will develop their reading proficiencies to match those of their achieving peers. |
Additional Resources:
"Reading to children has been repeatedly shown to improve their reading, writing and communication skills, logical thinking, concentration and general academic aptitude… as well as inspire a love of reading. The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s children’s literacy website, Storyline Online, streams imaginatively produced videos featuring celebrated actors including Kevin Costner, Rita Moreno, Annette Bening, James Earl Jones, Elijah Wood, Hector Elizondo, and Betty White reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations, helping to inspire a love of reading in children.
For each book, supplemental curriculum developed by a literacy specialist is provided, aiming to strengthen comprehension and verbal and written skills for English-language learners worldwide." - About Storyline Online, accessed May 19, 2017
For each book, supplemental curriculum developed by a literacy specialist is provided, aiming to strengthen comprehension and verbal and written skills for English-language learners worldwide." - About Storyline Online, accessed May 19, 2017
