First Grade RtII

RtII Strategies

RtII Activities
Explanation of
Activities

Tier One
Benchmark
students

Fluency
High Frequency
Words
Writing

Echo Reading
Paired Reading
Partner Reading

Read a text to the

students, then
discuss. Read a
sentence and have the
class read the
sentence back to you
in unison.
Pair students together
with similar reading
abilities. Discuss
complimentary words
for readers. Then ask
the students to take
turn reading
sentences to each
other, listening and
complimenting the
other reader

Tier Two
Small
homogeneous
groups with
systematic
instruction that
builds skills
gradually.

Comprehension
Vocabulary
Fluency

Stop, Go
Pencil Tap

For students who do

not stop at periods,
have them say the
word stop at the end
of every sentence.
Once you say go the
student may go on to
the next sentence.
Have the student read
a passage and if you
tap your pencil he
must stop and correct
his mistake and then
go back to the
beginning of the
sentence.

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Tier Three
Small groups that
focus on one objective
at a time, in order to
avoid overwhelming
the struggling
students. Instruction
should be slow and
deliberate.

Phonemic Awareness
Blending

Letter Matching

Use magnetic letters

and have the students
Blending Practice
work with a artier to
match the upper and
Phoneme Recognition lower case letters.
Model sounding out
the blends and have
the student repeat