<P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Response to Intervention initiative has risen to the top of today's instructional agenda and yet it is a process that is unfamiliar terrain for many teachers. To help teachers acquire a fuller understanding of the complexity of response to intervention designs, literacy researcher and best-selling author Dick Allington offers clear recommendations to guide classroom teachers in designing response to <I>instruction</I> (RtI) programs such that struggling readers will develop their reading proficiencies to match those of their achieving peers. Unlike any other book on the topic, Dick Allington provides a research-base that supports closing the reading achievement gap along with implications this has for designing RTI programs. In addition, Dick provides a comprehensive discussion of the factors that inhibit poor, disabled, and second-language learners from achieving and offers a number of research-based instructional strategies and routines for turning struggling readers into achieving readers. Teachers will be inspired and confident to design response to instruction programs!</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Take a look inside...</P> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Provides a complete <B>review of what is critical to accelerating the development of struggling readers</B>.</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Presents educators with a <B>framework for how we might design response to intervention (RTI) programs </B>such that struggling readers will develop their reading proficiencies to match those of their achieving peers.</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Features a <B>complete analysis of response to intervention design (RTI) </B>and offers a detailed framework for evaluating existing and future intervention efforts.</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Includes <B>numerous websites </B>that provide teacher-friendly information, strategies, and tools for accelerating reading development.</DIV></LI></UL>