By Denise P. Gibbs, Ed.D.

Here's practical guidance on implementing RTI to help secondary students struggling with reading, covering everything from attributes of effective literacy frameworks, assessments for screening and progress monitoring, the role of student and family engagement, and more.

Use it as your blueprint to increase secondary students' engagement with reading in today's multimedia world, with recent research, 7 new evidence-based reading intervention programs, plus the latest proven strategies to:

• Build students' background knowledge and reasoning skills as they proceed through complex texts
• Infuse lessons with Universal Design for Learning principles
• Integrate technology into literacy interventions to help students keep pace with 21st-century expectations
• Conduct audits to uncover inefficient use of time during the school day that can be used for literacy interventions
• And more