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Letters and Sounds
Preschool Language & Literacy > Phonological Awareness > See How It Works
Watch this kindergarten teacher demonstrate an effective classroom activity for teaching phonemic awareness, including a brief lesson on letter-sound correspondence.
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Selecting Books for Interactive Reading
Preschool Language & Literacy > Interactive & Dialogic Reading > See How It Works
Teachers need to know what to look for when selecting books for interactive reading. Hear an administrator describe how she trains teachers to make book selections. Review the program's Required...
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State Leadership: Building an RtI System
RtI Math > Implementation > See How It Works
Pennsylvania Secretary of Education, Gerald Zahorchak, describes how Response to Intervention has served to align the state's reform and improvement framework. In Pennsylvania, RtI is known as RtII...
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RtI Training for School Districts
RtI Math > Implementation > See How It Works
Erin Lolich, an administrator in the Tigard-Tualatin School District and the director of professional development in RtI for 32 school districts, describes the types of training, coaching, and...
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Principal’s Role in Instructional Decision Making
RtI Math > Implementation > See How It Works
Principal Deb Chiodo from Cornell Elementary School describes her development as an instructional leader through the use of RtI. Systematic and regular grade-level meetings are the heart of the...
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Powerful RtI Training Experiences
RtI Math > Implementation > See How It Works
Wendy Robinson coordinates Heartland AEA's Instructional Decision Making project. She describes training experiences that are effective for communication, allocating intervention resources, and...
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Charting the Path
RtI Math > Implementation > See How It Works
Principal Bobbie Lamond explains her role in the school's evolution of RtI. The sample material, RtI Implementation Self Report, is used to chart school progress. She also discusses the grade-level...
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Lessons From Iowa About RtI
RtI Math > Implementation > See How It Works
Lana Michelson, chief of Iowa's Bureau of Student and Family Support Services, and Eric Neessen, consultant for School Psychological Services, discuss Instructional Decision Making (IDM). IDM is a...
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Organizing for Differentiation in the Core Classroom
RtI Math > Intentional Teaching > See How It Works
A second-grade teacher demonstrates a lesson on subtraction with regrouping. Through small group instruction she differentiates for struggling students and provides immediate reteaching after...
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Pacing Instruction in Tier 3
RtI Math > Intentional Teaching > See How It Works
In this Tier 3 intervention lesson, the instructor reteaches a lesson on place value after it is clear that students have not grasped the concept of bundling ones to form a ten. Students create...
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Concrete to Abstract Sequence
RtI Math > Intentional Teaching > See How It Works
A middle-school special education teacher demonstrates a lesson on solving two-step equations. She shows how to begin with concrete materials and then represents the same concepts on the SMART...
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Explicit Teaching in the Fifth-Grade Math Core
RtI Math > Intentional Teaching > See How It Works
A fifth-grade teacher describes explicit step-by-step approaches to teaching division of fractions. She emphasizes vocabulary teaching, demonstration, scaffolding, partner sharing, and checking for...
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