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    • 27 to an hour or less. To form a baseline of information concerning teachers’ overall understanding of the RTI framework, the researcher began with interview questions created by Terry Ann Paradis (2011) from her dissertation. The questions were...
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    • 28 out of respect for the educator’s time as well as to be sure to observe the class for the entire time allotted. An observational protocol (Creswell, 2012) was developed to focus on particular aspects of instruction and classroom dynamics. This...
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    • 29 during the interview. All participants were given a timeframe of the completion of the study and had the opportunity to view the final results of the study. The interviews began in early January 2012, when all Institutional Review Board...
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    • 32 area. The identities of all participants have been kept confidential and findings will be reported in this study without revealing their personal information. A Brief Explanation of the Studied School’s Framework The following is the...
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    • 33 of RTI implementation and an illustration of this school’s implementation of the framework. For the purpose of this paper, the researcher focused on interventions at Tiers 1 and 2. Figure 1: RTI Structure. This figure illustrates the structure...
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    • Best Spelling Practices in Classroom Instruction A Thesis submitted to Southern Utah University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education May 2012 By Krysten Reynolds Thesis Committee: David M. Lund, Ph. D.,...
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    • STUDENT ORIENTATION 20 announcements, calendars, message boards, online journals or blogs, and more. In 2012, Utah’s public higher education and UCAT campuses will switch to Canvas, and I am told that Blackboard’s current curriculum will...
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    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 105 Levitt, S. D., & Dubner, S. J. (2005). Freakonomics: A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything (Revised and Expanded ed., pp. 163-188). New York, NY: William Morrow. Littlejohn, S. W., & Foss, K. A. (2011)....
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    • 1 4 4. What are some important points to remember about teaching spelling? The key points addressed are spelling must be taught, it must be individualized to meet the needs of the students and it must be taught across the curriculum. Teachers...
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    • 1 5 the struggling speller. The differentiation is also seen in the practice activities, games and assessments. This program has developed a five-day scope and sequence to help students improve their spelling skills everyday. On day one, the...
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    • 1 6 many forms of assessments with their program. There are diagnostic tests, formative and summative tests and measurements to allow for progress monitoring (Gentry, 2012). If mastery is not met, these tests inform the teacher of where re-teaching...
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    • 2 1 6. Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal precise actions, emotions, or states of being (e.g., quizzed, whined, stammered) and that are basic to a...
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    • 62 References Berkeley, S., Bender, W., Peaster, L. G., & Saunders, L. (2009). Implementation of Response to Intervention. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 42(1), 85-95. doi:10.1177/0022219408326214 Bianco, M. (2010). Strength-based RTI:...
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    • 2 5 research-based program, but it is the developmental theory that is research-based, not the program (Zaner-Bloser 2012, October 20). Word sorting alone, which is learning spelling by analogy, may not take into account other important strategies...
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    • 65 Reeves, S., Bishop, J., & Filce, H., G. (2010). Response to Intervention (RtI) and tier systems: Questions remain as educators make challenging decisions. The Delta Kappa Gamma Bulletin, 76(4), 26-29. Rinaldi, C., Averill, O. H., & Stuart, S....
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    • 2 7 spelling instruction was to teachers and helped to illustrate the numerous ways spelling is taught in the same school district and provided information regarding the possible opportunity to share findings of the study throughout the local...
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    • THE WEB 2 THE WEB FOR COMMUNICATION PROFESSIONALS A Thesis submitted to Southern Utah University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Professional Communication April 2012 ! By Chris Hall Capstone...
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    • 76 Appendix D Letter to Explain Study December 15, 2011 Dear Educator, I am inviting you to take part in a research study about teachers’ perspectives on RTI implementation. Three teachers from your school have been randomly chosen to take part...
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    • 4 0 References Bear, D. R., Invernizzi, M., Templeton, S., & Johnston, F. (2004). Words their way: word study for phonics, vocabulary, and spelling instruction (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson/Merrill/Prentice Hall. Burkhart, J. L....
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    • 4 1 Templeton, Shane (2003). Spelling: Best Ideas=Best Practices. Voices From the Middle 10(4), 48-49. USOE - Common Core - Common Core State Standards Resources. (n.d.). Utah State Office of Education - USOE - Welcome. Retrieved November 30, 2011,...
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