RTI Strategies

RTI Strategies For Math

• Mneumonics such as "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally"
• The use of manipulatives
• Drawing representations so the students can visually see the solution
• Addition and multiplication tables provided when the math goes beyond fact recall
• Rocket math

What is "rocket math"?

Rocket math is a supplemental practice curriculum for math facts. It is worksheet based. Each worksheet has two facts and their reverses to learn. It's a 10 minute-a-day curriculum with 1 minute assessments to determine whether the student will move to the next set of facts or not.

There are a lot of RTI activities for math that teachers can use. Some examples are SLOBS
& LAMPS, STAR, and DRAW. Descriptions of these and more examples can be found at www.pavilion.org.

RTI Strategies/Resources For Reading

• 40 Intervention Strategies For K-6 Students by Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins
• Teach, Probe, Record, Reward
• Flash cards for vocabulary words
• Word Wizard
• Echo Reading

What is "echo reading"?

Echo reading is a strategy of rereading that helps develop reading fluency. A teacher (or parent) reads a segment and the student echos the segments back.

RTI Strategies/Activities For Behavior

• Incentives for getting homework completed
• Consistant classroom routines
• The use of social stories for students that are on the Autism spectrum
• Hurdle help
• Antiseptic bouncing

What is "hurdle help"?

Hurdle help is simply providing a student with help to overcome a difficulty (hurdle) in an assignment. This will lower the chance or extent to which a child gets frustrated, lowering the risk of them acting out in class.

These are all important things to keep in mind as future teachers. As special education teachers, RTI is a real thing that you will use in your career. Having some prior knowledge of resources and strategies is extremely useful and will help you in the future when you run into issues in the areas of math, reading, and behavior.