What Is Tier 1 Text?
This UURC intervention model is designed to help educators become more effective and efficient at delivering Tier I reading instruction so that all G2+ readers -- especially those who struggle -- improve fluency and comprehension for immediate & transfer grade-level texts.
This research-based model allows for whole class instruction, utilizing content-rich and challenging main selections -- both narrative and informational -- from the core program, as well as other grade-level 'wide-reading' text.
Using Fluency-Oriented Reading Instruction (FORI), a fluency model developed by Stahl, Kuhn, Schwanenflugel & their colleagues (2003, 2005, 2006, 2008) students accrue 'miles on the page' as teachers scaffold challenging text through purposeful planning and use of consistent, interactive routines.
Teachers also employ Questioning the Author (QtA) comprehension routines (see Beck & McKeown 1996, 2004, 2006, 2010) to help students build a deep model of meaning for text..
