Unique Features
Carol S. Fitzpatrick has helped many students become good readers by using a “Response to Intervention/ Instruction” (RTI) approach. With today’s emphasis on RTI, she sees the opportunity for many more struggling readers to succeed—-if teachers don’t become too overwhelmed to make it work for their classrooms. The book, “Help, I Can’t Read!” How to Respond to Struggling Readers in Your Classroom is her effort to make the RTI process much more reasonable, practical, and effective than it has been presented nationwide. The book is loaded with everything a teacher needs to implement successful RTI. Even though it is written in an easy-to-read, accessible format, it is completely based on the most current scientific research in reading instruction.
- Complete
Other publishers didn’t think it could be done, but “Help!” covers the whole RTI process from assessment to interventions for every reading strand, and even includes a chapter on how to integrate writing.
- Simplified
Where other publishers go deep with many long, detailed books on each individual reading topic, “Help!” focuses on only the “best of the best” for classroom use as determined through Carol’s ten years of successful RTI experience.
- Effective
We are not trying to replace what your schools have already done in the RTI process; we want to help you make your efforts even more effective. For several years in a row, Carol’s struggling readers averaged two and a half years’ growth in reading ability using the methods given in this book.
- Practical
It is grounded on reasonable methods that work and have proven to be time-efficient. It even contains a phonics survey to be administered to the whole group at once which covers from basic sound/symbol relationships up to long, multisyllabic words. And it has a corresponding tool for progress-monitoring. These are just a few of the tips and strategies Carol includes in the book.
- Accessible
It is written by a teacher for teachers. Carol knows how tired teachers are at the end of the day. This book is easy to understand, easy to use with all the students in the class, and easy to adapt to the needs of specific students.
- Affordable
Through careful planning, we have kept the cost down. Other publishers have told us we should be charging much more, but we want to help as many teachers as possible.