Question

Imagine that you are a third-grade teacher who has been preparing to implement the RTI approach. You have one week to get ready for class before school begins. List and describe at least five things that you would do to prepare for the students’ arrival and to implement RTI during the upcoming year.

Answer 1

Answer:

• Plan reading and writing activities to identify students who have difficulty.
• Provide short texts that help students with reading problems.
• Provide writing activities for students with writing problems.
• Create reading dynamics.
• Create a small book club.
• Establish writing activities.

Explanation:

The response to intervention model, also known as RTI, is a model adopted by teachers who wish to reduce students' learning difficulties through activities that prioritize reading and writing.

Many of the learning problems that students have today are the result of poor reading, with little or no text interpretation, where students become functional illiterates, that is, they know how to read, but cannot understand what they read. In addition, another reason that justifies the students' learning difficulties are their writing problems, where they are unable to write with a correct spelling, resulting in several errors of cohesion and coherence.

Using the RTI approach, a teacher could:

• Plan reading and writing activities to identify students who have difficulty.
• Provide short texts that help students with reading problems.
• Provide writing activities for students with writing problems.
• Create reading dynamics.
• Create a small book club.
• Establish writing activities.