Chapter
Part I. The Intervention Assistance Approach to Improving Student Outcomes
The Evidence-Based-Intervention and -Practice Movement
What Makes a Good Intervention?
Ethics for Intervention Efforts
2. Using Evidence-Based Interventions to Enhance Student Outcomes
Key Steps in the Intervention Assistance Process
Evaluating Intervention Effectiveness
Best Practices for Maximizing Student Outcomes
Intervention Case Examples
3. Important Skills for Intervention Success
Coaching: A Key Training Tool for Intervention Success
Intervention Scripts and Implementation Checklists: Tools for Promoting and Assessing Treatment Integrity
Intervention-Oriented Test Reports
Using Rewards Effectively
Problem Analysis and Diagnosis
Monitoring Student Progress
Graphing: An Essential Tool for Evaluating Intervention Effectiveness
Part II. Evidence-Based School Interventions
4. Interventions to Improve Academic Performance
General Interventions to Improve Academic Performance
Using Response Cards to Increase Academic Engagement and Achievement
Incremental Rehearsal for Words, Math Facts, and Letter Sounds
Cover, Copy, and Compare: Increasing Academic Performance with Self-Management
Self-Monitoring of Academic Productivity
Interventions to Improve Reading Performance
Phonemic Awareness: Elkonin Boxes
Phonemic Awareness: "The Ship Is Loaded with . . . " Intervention
Three Steps to Better Decoding with Word Boxes
Graphosyllabic Analysis: Five Steps to Decoding Complex Words
Listening Previewing with Key Word Discussion
Improving Comprehension with a Summarization Strategy
Peer Tutoring in Vocabulary
Parents as Reading Tutors
Interventions to Improve Mathematics Performance
Concrete–Representational–Abstract
Math Concepts: Part–Part–Whole
Improving Math Fluency with a Multicomponent Intervention
FAST DRAW: Improving Math Word Problem Solving with Strategy Instruction
Cognitive Routine for Math Problem Solving
Interventions to Improve Writing Performance
Interventions to Improve Spelling Performance
What Spelling Words Should Be Taught?
Writing: Letter Formation
Incremental Rehearsal for Spelling
Add-a-Word for Spelling Success
Strategy Instruction in Story Writing
Writing Power: Cognitive Strategy Instruction in Expository Writing
PLAN and WRITE: SRSD for Essay Writing
Planning and Story-Writing Strategy
Peer Editing for Effective Revision
Interventions to Improve Content-Area Performance
Concept Mapping to Improve Comprehension
Collaborative Strategic Reading
Using Critical Thinking Maps to Improve Content-Area Comprehension
Dissect: The Word Identification Strategy
Admirals and Generals: Improving Content-Area Performance with Strategy Instruction and Peer Tutoring
Interventions to Improve Homework Completion and Accuracy
Team Up for Homework Success
Project Best: Seven Steps to Successful Homework Completion
5. Interventions to Improve Social Behavior
Classroom Behavior Interventions
Active Teaching of Classroom Rules
Decreasing Inappropriate Verbalizations with a Peer-Monitored Self-Management Program
The Good Behavior Game Plus Merit
Classwide Function-Related Intervention Teams
Using Banking Time to Build Positive Teacher–Student Relationships
A Multicomponent Intervention to Reduce Disruptive Behavior
Reducing Disruptive Behavior with Randomized Group Contingencies
Delivering Effective Praise
Delivering Effective Reprimands
Tootling: Enhancing Student Relationships with Peer Reporting, Public Posting, and Group Contingencies
Evidence-Based Classroom/Small-Group Interventions
Classwide Antecedent Modifications
Evidence-Based Individual Behavioral Proficiency Interventions
Differential Reinforcement of an Incompatible or Alternative Behavior
Say, Show, Check: Teaching Classroom Procedures
Using the Coupon System to Decrease Inappropriate Requests for Teacher Assistance
Individual Behavior Interventions
Noncontingent Reinforcement
Sit and Watch: Teaching Prosocial Behaviors
Debriefing: Helping Students Solve Their Own Behavior Problems
Three Steps to Self-Managed Behavior
Academic Behavior Interventions
Using Mystery Motivators to Support Homework Completion
The Rewards Box: Enhancing Academic Performance with Randomized Group Contingencies
Behavior Interventions for Use in Nonclassroom Settings
The Timely Transitions Game: Reducing Room-to-Room Transition Time
Six Steps to Effective Classroom Transitions
Reducing Hallway Noise with Sound-Level Monitoring and Group Contingencies: A Schoolwide Intervention
The Good Behavior Game Plus Merit—Physical Education Version
Positive Behavior Supports on the Playground: A Schoolwide Intervention
Improving Bus-Riding Behavior with a Schoolwide Intervention
Improving Behavior in Transition Settings with Active Supervision and Precorrection: A Schoolwide Intervention
6. Interventions to Improve Outcomes for Preschool Children
Promoting Independent In-Class Transitions with Self-Assessment and Contingent Praise
Six Steps to Effective Small-Group Instruction
Enhancing Emergent Literacy Skills with Dialogic Reading
Building Vocabulary Skills with Interactive Book Reading
Improving Compliance with Precision Requests and a Time-Out Procedure
Button, Button, Who's Got the Button?: Reducing Disruptive Behavior with Response Cost