EDLI636 Diagnosis and Remediation of Literacy Disorders

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RTI is an approach used to identify students with learning disabilities, in order to implement appropriate support and interventions to help them succeed. RTI ensures that no child slips through the cracks. It provides all students with appropriate and effective interventions, which will give them the skills they need to become more accurate and fluent readers. The RTI approach consists of 3 Tiers. In Tier 1, all students receive high quality, intense phonics instruction. The general ed teacher implements differentiated instruction, so that all students can learn and be apart. This literacy instruction works for 80-85% of students. If students are not succeeding in their reading and require additional help, Tier 2 intervention is employed. Tier 2’s instruction is more targeted and systematic. Small group instruction is given by highly trained teachers or specialists, inside the regular classroom. They focus their instruction on the students’ needs, be it phonics, comprehension...

What is QRI5? The Qualitive Reading Inventory-5 is an individually administered informal reading inventory that provides information about conditions in which a student can identify words and comprehend text successfully or not. The assessment consists of grade leveled word lists and narrative and expository passages. There are a few parts to this assessment, so that a student’s reading ability can be determined most accurately.   What is the purpose of using QRI5? The QRI-5 assessment can be used to examine students reading levels, to group students for guided reading sessions, to choose appropriate level books for literacy circles, reading workshops, and independent reading, to design and evaluate intervention instruction, and to document student growth. Have you seen similar assessment activities like QRI5? What are they? The Running Record is a similar type of assessment that can determine students’ reading levels and the area of reading they are stru...