Riverside Publishing - Response to Intervention

Purpose: Identify skill deficits that will be the focus of remediation during interventions.

How to Use:

	Administer to students identified as intervention candidates through universal screening.
	Develop and implement interventions with a problem-solving team.
	Re-administer alternative forms as needed for additional diagnostics.
	Use progress monitoring assessments to determine which students are responding.


	*Woodcock-Johnson^® *III NU (WJ III^® NU) Tests of Achievement Type: Achievement battery Grades: Pre-K-Adult Content:** Reading, Oral Language, Mathematics, Written Language, Academic Knowledge
The WJ III NU Tests of Achievement is an individually administered series of tests for diagnosing a student’s level of limitation or at-risk performance. Utilize the selective testing design of WJ III NU to efficiently focus assessment on a particular content area identified as a concern through universal screening. Assessment Service Bulletin #8: Educational Interventions Related to the WJ III Tests of Achievement lists related educational interventions for each test to help your problem solving team begin implementing interventions soon after testing..

	*Diagnostic Assessments of Reading^™ (DAR^™), Second Edition* Type: Achievement battery Grades: K–Adult Content: Reading
DAR is an individually administered assessment that provides diagnostic data across nine key areas of student learning in reading. Use it to facilitate identification of specific deficits in Print Awareness, Phonological Awareness, Letters and Sounds, Word Recognition, Word Analysis, Oral Reading Accuracy/Fluency, Silent Reading Comprehension, Spelling, and Word Meaning. Once deficits are diagnosed, teachers and other problem-solving team members can intervene with the lessons available through Trial Teaching Strategies to remediate any observed deficits. These web-based lessons are included with each kit.
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