Response to Intervention in Writing: A Suggested Framework for Screening, Intervention, and Progress Monitoring

Identifying Writing Difficulties in First Grade: An Investigation of Writing and Reading Measures

“…One gap in this area of research is valid screening procedures for writing difficulties. Technically adequate screening measures are required if schools plan to use response to intervention (RTI, McMaster, Parker, & Jung, ; Saddler & Asaro‐Saddler, ) models to identify and provide more intensive instruction for students who may be at risk for writing difficulties. In this study, we investigate screening procedures for identifying writing difficulties of students during first grade.…”

Assessing children's writing products: the role of curriculum based measures

“…Typically primary school children's writing is evaluated in response to a written, spoken or pictorial probe and these texts are then scored to capture the children's competence in written text production. Irrespective of the approach taken writing assessments are needed to provide information about the pupils' current level of performance and future teaching and learning needs and the teacher or the researcher is required to make explicit decisions about the dimension(s) of the text which are to be evaluated (Saddler & Asaro-Saddler, 2013). …”

Combining quality and curriculum-based measurement

“…There is a lack of research on how to frame writing within an RTI model (Saddler & Asaro-Saddler, 2013). Hughes and Dexter (2011) examined 13 field studies to examine RTI efficacy.…”

“…Little focus has been placed on screening, monitoring progress, and designing and evaluating effective writing interventions (McAlenney & McCabe, 2012). One overriding reason for this is that additional research is still needed to identify a writing measure that can accurately identify students with writing difficulties (Saddler & Asaro-Saddler, 2013).…”

“…The response to intervention (RTI) model may be used to implement and monitor evidence based interventions with students that are having difficulty meeting the core standards. Even though there is an extensive research base in writing, little research discusses how to frame writing within an RTI model (Saddler & Asaro-Saddler, 2013). Fuchs (2004) stated that curriculum based measurement might be the tool used within RTI frameworks, but additional research is needed.…”