Focus on Response to Intervention (RTI)

Response to Intervention aims to prevent unnecessary assignment to special education. With RTI, low-performing children are offered intense, individualized academic intervention. Student progress is monitored to see if response to this intervention yields adequate academic growth.

RTI in the classroom: What do teachers need to know?

Report stresses new and expanded roles for reading teachers in schools contemplating an RTI approach.

Implications for Reading Teachers in Response to Intervention (RTI)
Response to Instruction/Response To Intervention: New Opportunities for Students and Reading Professionals (PowerPoint file)

IRA’s RTI Resource Library lists articles, book chapters, and brief reports for IRA members who wish to know how RTI might affect their students and classrooms.

Several other pages on this website provide information and resources on topics related to RTI. Of particular note are

Focus on Struggling Learners is a guide to information about diagnosis of reading/learning difficulties, classroom strategies and interventions, and the resources to assist educators in meeting the challenge of helping all learners succeed.

Meetings and events

IRA’s annual convention always includes numerous sessions on reading and education policy. The following sessions appear on the program for the 2008 convention.

Session: "Coaching Reflective Practitioners in a Response to Intervention Model: Accelerating the Achievement of At-Risk First Grade Readers," Presenter: Divonna Stebick
Session: "Implementing Response to Intervention," Presenter: Kary Johnson
Research Session: "Differentiated Instruction and RtI (Response to Intervention): Where does the research stand?," Presenters: Richard Long; Kathleen Whitmire; Peggy McCardle
Featured Speakers: "Response to Intervention: What We Have and What We Might Imagine," Presenters: Richard Allington; Anne McGill-Franzen

Online resources

IRA is a Founding Partner of the RTI Action Network, a national initiative dedicated to the responsible and effective implementation of Response to Intervention (RTI). Explore a wide range of resources including Blogs, Voices from the Field, RTI Talks, and Ask the Experts features, and connect with educators and administrators nationwide through the RTI Discussion Boards.