1. Inquiry as a Vehicle for
Intervention: Leverage for
our most struggling middle
school readers
Jen McCarty Plucker, Ed.D.
ISD 196 Teaching and Learning Specialist
PPT available at http://jmplucker.blogspot.com
Gretchen Cary
ISD 196 RtI/Literacy Lead Teacher (6th grade) and
Rosemount Middle School Strategic Reading Teacher

2. Traditional Literacy
Intervention
A Focus on the Parts

3. A “New” Approach to Literacy
Intervention

5. Comprehending
Efficacy/Identity
Vocabulary
Fluency
Phonics
Phonemic Awareness
Whole to Part to Whole

6. Whole to Part to Whole

10. Author/Illustrator Study

16. Ish by Peter Reynolds

17. Jen McCarty, Ed.D.
How are we letting go and
fostering student ownership and
engagement?

18. Student Voice and Choice

19. Embracing Student Questions

20. Student as Knowledge Creator

21. Interaction and Talk

22. Real Purpose and Audience

23. Multiple Resources

24. Teacher as Model and Coach

25. Performance and Self-Assessments

26. Integration—
Reading, writing, language/word
study, and publishing
(speaking/viewing/listening)

27. “Productive Struggle”

28. Continuum of Learning
Standards/Benchmarks are Recursive—
spiral forward growing in sophistication

29. Increase in informational text

30. Metatextuality—within, beyond, and about
the text