Characteristics and skills by grade level of a proficient reader and writer  What are the targeted skills to progress monitor throughout the year?

Assessment & Scheduling Practices (within the RTI framework)

How can students be effectively scheduled into interventions so they thrive in an RTI framework and so that we have high fidelity of treatment? In what ways will students be identified for placement into specific interventions?

Tier 1 Instructional Practices

What “Tier 1” instructional practices should be core strategies in a school’s literacy initiative and specific to content area literacy demands?

Tier II: Middle school reading curriculum & best instructional practices

What are the key elements of rigorous curriculum for a middle school reading course?  What are the essential instructional practices?  What short cycle assessments are needed to progress monitor?

Tier II: Literacy for a Lifetime high school curriculum & best instructional practices

What are the key elements of rigorous curriculum for this high school reading intervention?  What are the essential instructional practices? What short cycle assessments are needed to progress monitor?

Tier III: Literacy Interventions and Fidelity of Treatment

What does “Fidelity of Treatment” look like for each literacy intervention?

Teacher Training

What skills in reading and reading instruction should teachers possess when hired to teach secondary literacy interventions? What training should teachers receive after they are hired to teacher interventions?

Appendix of Instructional Strategies

What do these strategies look like in the classroom?

Sample Walkthrough and “Look Fors”

What should teachers be doing in the literacy-rich classroom?  What should students be doing?