Toby likes being a cat more than a boy.

He likes playing at home by himself. So when it’s time to go to school, he becomes a timid kitten.

A girl asks Toby to play, but he just scampers away. The rest of the kids swing on the swings, but Toby climbs up a tree.

When Toby finally finds the courage to join in, he realizes it’s okay to just be yourself—and that everything’s more fun with friends.

• Introduces a detailed intervention planning method that can be implemented by practitioners immediately.
• Offers guidelines for intervention planning in an RTI Service Delivery Model.
• Demonstrates how to tailor interventions for students with learning difficulties in reading, mathematics, written expression, and in oral and written language.
• Describes how to plan, select, and individualize interventions for students in underserved and mis-served populations. These populations include students from impoverished environments, English Language Learners,and students with inefficient memory strategies and executive functioning difficulties.
• Conveniently formatted for rapid reference and includes intervention planning guidelines and worksheets on the accompanying CD-ROM.