Professional Book Reviews: Response to Intervention

There are often vague calls for teachers to become “change agents.” It is frequently unclear, however, just what it is that teachers reasonably can do on a daily basis to make a difference. The federal initiative Response to Intervention (RTI) offers one possibility: classroom teachers can take responsibility for students who are not yet experiencing success as readers and “intervene” to change that pattern. The four books reviewed by Diane Stephens in this column offer information that can help teachers provide such instruction and, in so doing, function as “change agents”—as teachers who can change the trajectory of a child as a reader.