RESPONSE TO INTERVENTION (RTI) GOAL                    
    The overall goal of RtI is to accelerate children’s reading ability by increasing their ability to use phonics skills in order to improve their reading fluency and their comprehension.  Appropriate, reading tools and strategies are taught so that children can become independent and successful readers on or above grade level. 
     The Soar to Success curriculum published by Houghton-Mifflin will be used for instruction.  There are 30 literature selections that include both a fiction and a non-fiction story for students.  Each lesson is composed of the following components: Revisiting, Teaching, Reading, and Responding.  The descriptions and rationale for each are describe below.

Revisiting
* Children read alone or with a partner from a familiar book.
* The teacher works with individual students to take a retelling, conduct oral reading checks, or coach their reading.
* The purpose is to build fluency, develop comprehension and to develop the connection between learning to read and independent reading.      
Teaching
* The teacher directs lesson on letter names, phonemic awareness, phonic and high frequency words.
* The purpose is to develop reading skills for decoding and to develop fluency with high frequency words.
Reading
* The teacher introduces the selection with a Guided Preview.
* The teacher introduces story words and the prediction strategies for reading.
* The teacher and students read the stories.
* The purpose is to develop reading strategies to build comprehension and independent reading skills, to develop vocabulary to support decoding, to develop students' ability to construct meaning and to develop fluency in reading.

Responding
*The teacher introduces the reading strategies of summarize, clarify/phonics and questions.
* The purpose is to develop comprehension and reading strategies for students to become independent readers and to practice letter names, phonemic awareness and decoding skills.