| RTI Key Attributes | OpenBook Key Attributes |
| 1. Differentiated Instruction | Each student begins with a placement test to determine English Language Proficiency. OpenBook's Basic Reading Skills Assessment determines a student"s phonemic awareness and ability to identify letters and common sight words. OpenBook's English Fluency Placement Assessment determines a student's ability to recognize sight words, understand and identify synonyms and display knowledge of comprehension, both oral and text supported. |
| 2. Varied duration, frequency and time of intervention. | Each student works independently on a systematic lesson path. Greatest gains have been established when students utilize the software for a minimum of 3 sessions per week, 20-40 minutes per session. |
| 3. Instruction delivered by Staff other than classroom teacher. | OpenBook's software utilizes onboard speech pathologists to mouth-model phonemes and give guided practice on all phonics activities. Students work independently on their personal lesson path. |
| 4. Research Based Instruction | OpenBook uses rich-media to deliver instruction in all five areas identified by the National Reading Panel as essential components of a literacy curriculum. In addition, OpenBook provides instruction in all nine components identified by the U.S. Dept. of Ed funded research as most effective for literacy development. |
| 5.High Quality Classroom Instruction | OpenBook is a media-rich software solution that uses high-quality video, photos, animation, voice recording and native language tutorials. The OpenBook Instructional Method allows students to become active participants in their learning and control their own rate of progress. |
| 6. Assessment of Classroom Performance | OpenBook gathers a comprehensive assortment of data on students' use and mastery of the OpenBook content. Teachers and administrators can use these data as powerful diagnostic and prescriptive tools. |
| 7.Universal Screening (academics and behavior) | OpenBook's research-based reading and writing program tracks students' progress in real time through the OpenBook scope and sequence and are designed to be used as part of a comprehensive teaching methodology. |
| 8. Research Based Interventions | OpenBook meets all requirements by the National Reading Panel for instruction in Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary and Text Comprehension. |
| 9.Continuous Progress Monitoring | There are 11 reports in the OpenBook program that allows teachers and administrators to collect data and aggregate into reports; Student Status, Word Builder & Word Recognition, Student Comprehension, Student Writings, Tools Usage, Reading Level Assessment, K-2 Learning Styles Assessment, 3-A Learning Styles Assessment, Basic Skills Assessment, Detailed Student Charts and Individual Student Status Report |
| 10. Progress monitored to determine Student RTI | The OpenBook Student and Assessment reports allow Teachers and Administrators to benchmark at periodic intervals. |
| 11. The Fidelity measure provides the information that the intervention was implemented as intended with consistency. | OpenBook's Tools Usage Reports identifies how a student is interacting with the reading pages in conjunction with the learning tools. Classroom Status Reports identify time on task and total pages completed. |
12. Parent Partnerships Parent input is valued and utilized. |
Homework CD's can go home with Students to extend their learning time with their families. In addition, Student Reports can be exported to and text file for moving data into Word or Excel where they could easily be emailed to parents. |