Teaching · Reading Intervention

A referral the reading team can act on at the first meeting.

Describe where reading breaks down with a real example, give the screening result, and list what you already tried in class. The summary assembles the referral and points out what the team will ask before it can help.

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The referral

One record per student and referral. Use initials or a code, never a name. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Reading Intervention$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with: For each student, a referral to the reading support team with the concern, an example, screening, supports tried, background and strengths, plus a list of questions the team will ask.
Who it is for: Classroom teachers referring a student for reading support, and the reading specialists and MTSS coordinators who receive referrals.
Format: Browser form. Several saved records; printed with the summary for the team or as a blank referral form; CSV with one row per record or the supports table; export and import a file.
Access: $12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Reading Intervention toolkit ($49) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives: The Reading Intervention space in Caveat Teaching.
Support: Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.

Drawn for this page. A strong referral carries the concern, the evidence and what has already been tried, so the team can act at its first meeting.

How to use it

Start a record with the student’s initials or a code and the date.
Mark where reading breaks down and write one concrete example from class.
Enter the screening measure and its result in the screener’s own terms.
List each classroom support, how many weeks, and how it went.
Add the background and strengths, then read what the team will ask.

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What the referral is for

What a referral needs

Teams act fastest on a referral that names the skill that breaks down, gives a real example, includes the screening result and lists what was already tried. Attendance, vision and hearing, and language background rule other explanations in or out.

Intervention and evaluation

A referral to reading intervention is not a referral for special education. Federal guidance is clear that a tiered support process, such as response to intervention, cannot be used to delay or deny an evaluation when a disability is suspected, and a family can ask for one at any time.

What this form is not

It does not screen, place a student in intervention or decide eligibility. Screening results are entered in the screener’s own terms; the form adds no scores.

Sources

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, Memo 11-07 (January 21, 2011): a response to intervention process cannot be used to delay or deny an evaluation under IDEA.
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act regulations, 34 CFR 300.301(b) (a parent may request an initial evaluation) and 300.111 (child find).
Gersten, R., and others (2008). Assisting Students Struggling with Reading: Response to Intervention and Multi-Tier Intervention in the Primary Grades (NCEE 2009-4045). What Works Clearinghouse practice guide.
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 34 CFR Part 99.

The example student is made up. The form is a referral for reading support; it does not screen, diagnose or decide eligibility. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.