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Evidence‐based early reading practices within a Response to Intervention system
Author(s) -
Bursuck Bill,
Blanks Brooke
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/pits.20480
Subject(s) - response to intervention , reading (process) , intervention (counseling) , psychology , special education , key (lock) , component (thermodynamics) , best practice , evidence based practice , pedagogy , medical education , mathematics education , computer science , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , physics , alternative medicine , computer security , pathology , psychiatry , thermodynamics , management , economics
Many students who experience reading failure are inappropriately placed in special education. A promising response to reducing reading failure and the overidentification of students for special education is Response to Intervention (RTI), a comprehensive early detection and prevention system that allows teachers to identify and support struggling readers early, before they fail. A key component of RTI is the implementation of evidence‐based reading practices within a multitiered framework. School psychologists are increasingly being asked to lead or be members of RTI building teams. As such, they can play an important role in assuring that evidence‐based practices in reading are implemented with integrity. The purpose of this article is to provide a framework for judging the extent to which early reading instruction within a multitier RTI system is evidence based. Key evidence‐based practices related to the content, design, and delivery of early reading instruction are described. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.