RTI: The Classroom Connection for Literacy.

RTI: The Classroom Connection for Literacy

By Karen A. Kemp and Mary Ann Eaton

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Kemp and Eaton devote their attention in this book to the ins and outs of RTI as it applies to reading skills in the classroom. Although written primarily for educators, the authors easy to read style is equally accessible to parents who are seeking to understand the strategies classroom teachers are using to teach reading in the classroom.

The focal point of this book is to provide specific intervention strategies for teachers to use for students who demonstrate specific deficits in various areas of reading. The areas they cover include phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension and motivation. Each problem discussion follows an approach that identifies what the technique is, when to use it, its benefits, materials needed, implementation steps and curriculum-based measurement used to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention. In many instances, the authors include instruments to be used in the implementation of the specific intervention.

We like this book for its ease of use, for its organization and for its consistent style in identifying and implementing individual interventions. We could see ourselves following their analytical format in discussing or describing problems occurring in learning domains outside of reading.