Last semester for our Reading Measures and Intervention class, we were instructed to do an RTI (Response to Intervention) session for 7 weeks with a student at a local Shippensburg Elementary School. Every child we got to work with was struggling with Reading. During the 30 minute session, we got to do word work, reading on level texts, reading a a text that is a 'new' text,writing comprehension and cutting up the sentence after writing it and rearranging the sentence back in order.
Week 1
I was so eager to meet my kiddo that I will be working with for 8 weeks!! For confidential purposes, I will address him as Daniel. Daniel is a first grade student who was struggling with Reading and Comprehension. After my first session, I learned that Daniel was a Fountas and Pinnell letter A as a first grade student. These next seven week sessions will fly by, and I cannot wait to see him progress! During my session, I taught Daniel about short /a/ vowel sounds doing a matching game! He enjoyed it and meeting Miss. E. for the first time.
Week 2
Our second session went awesome! Daniel and I worked on short vowel sounds. I created a roll the dice game. He would roll each letter and whatever word it made, he would find it on the graphic organizer and color it. Daniel enjoyed being able to roll the dice and we even had open discussions about letters that did not create words as well as words that were not pictured on the graphic organizer. So proud of his accomplishments already! We are still on level A Fountas and Pinnell, but working on level B!
Week 3
Session number three has come to a close and Daniel is over joyed to see me when we meet for our 30 minute session. Daniel read a book on level C today and blew me out of the water! While we were reading When I Look Up, Daniel was using picture identification and when he read the page, he said "When I look up I see an alligator." Instead of correcting him, I pulled out some boo-boo tape and we decided to change the words in the book. Instead of saying crocodile, we change it to alligator because that's what Daniel said. Then during our writing session, Daniel wrote a whole sentence himself saying "I play with Ninja Turtles". I was beyond proud of him this session. He is continuing to improve!
Week 4
Our RTI sessions have been
awesome! Daniel is now on F&P reading level B and reading new level texts on level C. He expresses how much he enjoys Ninja Turtles in our writing and I try to make our sessions revolve around his interests. Daniel is great at looking at pictures to insinuate words that he is seeing. He wrote a sentence this week that said "I like to watch Shark Boy and Lava Girl." During our writing comprehension, he writes in a journal and then we work out corrections together, then he writes the sentence "perfect" and always ends with drawing a picture to go along with the sentence. During our word work, I created a basketball style like game with cotton balls into plastic cups. The cups were labeled with blends of /sp/, /sl/ and /st/. Which ever cup the cotton ball landed in, Daniel had to choose a card from the pile corresponding to the cup. Of course we created a score board because nothing is more fun than "beating" Miss. E!!
Week 5
Hard to believe that it has already been five weeks of intervention! Daniel has been making such progress and when I show up to his teacher's door to pick him up for intervention, he has an instant smile on his face. For week 5, we are continuing to work on blends. I chose to do /br/, /tr/, and /dr/ with the /r/ blend sounds. Daniel enjoyed doing this word work activity of a memory game. Obviously we had to keep score, and sure enough, he won. During writing comprehension, Daniel wrote a sentence that said "My favorite Ninja Turtle is the black one." He sure does love the Ninja Turtles and i'm glad we can involve his interests in these activities!
Week 6 and Week 7
Unforunately, Daniel was sick for the last two weeks of intervention. I was able to contact his teacher for a time to meet up and give him little gifts that were revolved around Ninja Turtles!! This RTI experience has really shown me how intervention works and being able to work on Tier 2 of intervention with a student.
Week 1
Week 2
Our second session went awesome! Daniel and I worked on short vowel sounds. I created a roll the dice game. He would roll each letter and whatever word it made, he would find it on the graphic organizer and color it. Daniel enjoyed being able to roll the dice and we even had open discussions about letters that did not create words as well as words that were not pictured on the graphic organizer. So proud of his accomplishments already! We are still on level A Fountas and Pinnell, but working on level B!Week 3
Session number three has come to a close and Daniel is over joyed to see me when we meet for our 30 minute session. Daniel read a book on level C today and blew me out of the water! While we were reading When I Look Up, Daniel was using picture identification and when he read the page, he said "When I look up I see an alligator." Instead of correcting him, I pulled out some boo-boo tape and we decided to change the words in the book. Instead of saying crocodile, we change it to alligator because that's what Daniel said. Then during our writing session, Daniel wrote a whole sentence himself saying "I play with Ninja Turtles". I was beyond proud of him this session. He is continuing to improve!Week 4
Our RTI sessions have been awesome! Daniel is now on F&P reading level B and reading new level texts on level C. He expresses how much he enjoys Ninja Turtles in our writing and I try to make our sessions revolve around his interests. Daniel is great at looking at pictures to insinuate words that he is seeing. He wrote a sentence this week that said "I like to watch Shark Boy and Lava Girl." During our writing comprehension, he writes in a journal and then we work out corrections together, then he writes the sentence "perfect" and always ends with drawing a picture to go along with the sentence. During our word work, I created a basketball style like game with cotton balls into plastic cups. The cups were labeled with blends of /sp/, /sl/ and /st/. Which ever cup the cotton ball landed in, Daniel had to choose a card from the pile corresponding to the cup. Of course we created a score board because nothing is more fun than "beating" Miss. E!!
Week 5
Hard to believe that it has already been five weeks of intervention! Daniel has been making such progress and when I show up to his teacher's door to pick him up for intervention, he has an instant smile on his face. For week 5, we are continuing to work on blends. I chose to do /br/, /tr/, and /dr/ with the /r/ blend sounds. Daniel enjoyed doing this word work activity of a memory game. Obviously we had to keep score, and sure enough, he won. During writing comprehension, Daniel wrote a sentence that said "My favorite Ninja Turtle is the black one." He sure does love the Ninja Turtles and i'm glad we can involve his interests in these activities! Week 6 and Week 7
Unforunately, Daniel was sick for the last two weeks of intervention. I was able to contact his teacher for a time to meet up and give him little gifts that were revolved around Ninja Turtles!! This RTI experience has really shown me how intervention works and being able to work on Tier 2 of intervention with a student.
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