International Reading Association releases new guiding principles on reading interventions

Posted by Beth DuBose on Jan 13, 2010

IRA has published a document with their guiding principles in regard to reading interventions in the Response to Intervention Process.

The guiding principles discussed in the document are based on the following topics:

• Instruction
  
  
  
  • RTI is first and foremost intended to prevent problems by
    
    optimizing language and literacy instruction.
  
  
  
  


• Responsive Teaching and Differentiation
  
  
  
  • The RTI process emphasizes increasingly differentiated and
    
    intensified instruction or intervention in language and literacy.
  
  
  
  


• Assessment
  
  
  
  • An RTI approach demands assessment that can inform language
    
    and literacy instruction meaningfully.
  
  
  
  


• Collaboration
  
  
  
  • RTI requires a dynamic, positive, and productive collaboration
    
    among professionals with relevant expertise in language and
    
    literacy. Success also depends on strong and respectful
    
    partnerships among professionals, parents, and students.
  
  
  
  


• Systemic and Comprehensive Approaches
  
  
  
  • RTI must be part of a comprehensive, systemic approach to
    
    language and literacy assessment and instruction that supports all
    
    preK–12 students and teachers.
  
  
  
  


• Expertise
  
  
  
  • All students have the right to receive instruction from wellprepared
    
    teachers who keep up to date and supplemental
    
    instruction from professionals specifically prepared to teach
    
    language and literacy (IRA, 2000).
  
  
  
  

These principles will be most beneficial to districts working on creating a RTI process to support students with research-based reading interventions.

View the Guiding Principles document