This is a one-stop source of proven reading strategies for use with RTI interventions! Offering a set of practical instructional strategies, this second edition of the bestseller helps elementary and middle school educators integrate approaches for strengthening reading skills with procedures for Response to Intervention (RTI). Grounded in research-based reading instruction for students with learning difficulties, this resource provides both highly effective strategies that take a moderate investment of time to implement and tested tactics that can be easily implemented with little or no preparation. The authors discuss a wide range of topics, including: early literacy and brain-compatible reading instruction; early literacy assessments; phonological and phonemic instruction; developmental reading and spelling stages; building vocabulary and reading fluency; and, reading comprehension and the brain.