Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)
Highly individualized instruction in a 1:1 or 1:2 setting, in a quiet, separate space.
What is tier 3 instruction?
students prepare and read orally closed-syllable words such as hint, slap and split
What is Oral Reading Review for Accuracy and Fluency?
Monitor and support students as they begin independent work to ensure accurate application of skills
What is Gradual Release and Independent Practice?
Ongoing assessment
Make adjustments when necessary
What is Assessment and Progress Monitoring?
These two components should last approximately 10 minutes each.
What are Oral Listening Strategies and Comprehension and Oral Language Practice and Vocabulary?
Pre-planned with listed scope, sequence, materials, and expected student responses.
What is the tier 1 lesson plan format?
this involves asking students to identify rhyming words
What is Phonemic Awareness?
Connect new concepts to prior learning through guided discovery and modeling
What is Cumulative Review and Scaffolded Instruction?
Using all senses to enhance memory and understanding
What is Multi-sensory Learning?
This is the first component in a Structured Literacy lesson.
What is Alphabet Knowledge and Phonemic Awareness?
Reinforces prior instruction using more focused materials (e.g., narrowed skill sets, targeted examples).
What is Instructional Focus and Materials for tier 2 instruction?
students find and discuss meanings for the descriptive words from a story, use them in sentences and record them in their notebooks
What is Oral Language Practice and Vocabulary?
Teachers use data and ongoing assessment to inform instruction, reteach when needed, and adjust pacing
What is Expert Planning and Pacing?
Tiered Interventions
Tailored to the needs of each learner
Clear, step by step directions
What is Systematic and Explicit Instruction?
Targets specific skills for the day based on immediate student needs; highly diagnostic and responsive. vs Provides a big-picture view of instruction across the week; ensures cumulative skill coverage and pacing.
What is Daily vs. Weekly planning?
Supplemental instruction in small groups (3–5 students), often outside the classroom.
What are tier 2 interventions?
using a spelling deck, dictate sounds to students who repeat the sounds, say the letter names and write them on a board
What is Spelling Sounds?
Phonemic Awareness
Phonics & Word Recognition
Fluency
Vocabulary & Comprehension
Spelling & Handwriting
What is Multisensory and Structured Components?
Supports reading comprehension and writing
What is Language Structure and Grammar?
These 3 instructional components should last approximately 3 minutes each during a lesson.
What are Reading Previously Taught Letters, Spelling Sounds and Handwriting?
High-quality, grade-level instruction for all students in a whole-class setting.
What is tier 1 instruction?
reinforce with sky writing, handwriting, reading the sound, and spelling the sound
What is Multisensory Discovery of Letters and Sounds?
Systematic feedback and corrections in response to student performance
What are Explicit Teaching Techniques?
before every structured literacy lesson, teachers must do this
What is develop a lesson plan that includes all the components of Structured Literacy?
any scripted structured literacy program must this type of intervention
What is a Scientifically Researched-Based Intervention?