Friday, January 14, 2011

Free RTI Online Resource

I'm currently working with my curriculum team on creating some reading passages for kids ages 4-9 to help them practice decoding in context. One of my colleagues introduced me to a website called "Intervention Central", which was designed to serve as a resource for Response to Intervention (RTI) teachers. I thought it was worth sharing this resource on this blog since it has several helpful tools that can be used in various classroom settings.

My team and I are using the reading fluency passage generator tool to pilot our stories. We simply copy and paste our passage text into a box and click "submit," and the website creates a document we can use to pilot our passages. The number of words on each line are identified in the right margin, as well as the Grade Level Equivalency score/s of our choice. We've chosen to use the Flesch-Kincaid measure, but you can opt to use any number of readability formulas, including (but not limited to) Fog Index, Spache, SMOG-Grading, and Coleman-Liau. The website also provides a number of other kinds of tools, including a letter naming fluency probe generator, a wordlist fluency generator, and a maze passage generator (similar to a cloze exercise), to name a few. There is also a math worksheet generator. Although this website was designed specifically as an RTI resource, I find the tools on this website effective for various language classrooms.

4 comments:

  1. I have found this website to be benefical.

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  2. I'm glad you find this website useful, Vondria! Thanks for the comment.

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  3. Heidi, the link you have for the "reading fluency passage generator" has an extra space (%20) in it so it doesn't work. Try changing it to "http://www.interventioncentral.org/tools/reading-passages/".

    Jim, Peace Corps volunteer working in a rural primary school in Thailand

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  4. Thanks, Jim! I appreciate that catch. I fixed the link. :) Good luck to you with your teaching in Thailand!

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