By Mike Hutchens, UC Schools Communications Director
Union City, Tenn.–Students in Angie Conley’s first-grade class are on a ‘roll’ when it comes to RTI activities.
Conley’s Union City Elementary School pupils have recently spent their scheduled Response To Intervention (RTI) time on reading fluency and comprehension.
Introducing a fun activity that included dice, Conley split her students into teams and introduced them to a practice called ‘roll and read.’
Each group rolled a dice and read the number that was associated with a sentence on a worksheet. Each person had a turn reading that sentence, and if one member of the team struggled with a word, the partner was allowed to help them sound it out.
Students then colored in a box as a signal they completed each sentence on the worksheet in a competitive aspect of the exercise.
The students paid particular attention to tricky words, sight words, and words that ended with an ‘e.’
“I try to make RTI fun and enjoyable, and they really seemed to enjoy the exercise and looked forward to it each time we did it,” said Conley, a first-year teacher at UCES who has classroom experience in another school system.
“It’s a great way to have them reading multiple sentences and getting extra practice to increase their reading fluency.”