Program Objectives:


1. To provide a comprehensive strategy that will address the federally mandated Response to Intervention  (RTI) requirements for Specific Learning Disabilities

2. To provide Middle School students with supplemental academic practice across the Middle School Curriculum

3. To prepare Middle School students for state mandated Standardized Tests


*Materials Needed to Create Cards:

1. 110 # card stock paper (21 sheets per subject)
2. Paper cutter
3. Corner-rounding punch

*Materials may be purchased at any office and/or art supply store. Instructor prints deck(s), front and back, on card stock paper, cuts out cards with paper cutter, using corner-rounding punch to produce authentic playing card shapes. 

Guidelines for Play:


Players:

The Curriculum Content Cards may be used by 2-4 players


Game Play:

Play will begin with the answer deck(s), progress to the fill-in-the-blank deck(s), and finally to the question deck(s).  Play will continue in the same manner for each type of deck, except that instead of only reading the card as is done with the answer deck, the student(s) will fill in the correct answer on the fill-in-the-blank cards and answer the question on the question cards.

Card Games:

1. “I Declare War”—In this card game, all cards are dealt face-down to the players.  The players may not look at their cards.  Each player, starting from right to left, will then play the top card from his/her stack.  After a player plays a card, he/she will read the answer on the face of the card.  The player with the highest card (Aces are highest, then kings, queens, jacks, tens, etc.) wins the hand and gets all of the played cards to add to the bottom of his/her stack.  If two or more players should play the same card, for example, each plays an ace, they have “war” and must each play four cards, each card representing a syllable in the statement: “I de- clare war.”  The first three of these cards are played face-down, only the last, or fourth, card is played face-up.  The player with the highest final card wins all of the cards.  Play continues until one player wins all of the cards.

2. “21”—In this game, each player is dealt two cards, the first face-down and the second face-up.  The object of the game is to get as close to 21-points with a combination of 2 or more cards without going over.  After the first two cards are dealt, each player will add up his/her total points.  If the player wants to increase his/her points, he/she may ask for another card by saying: “hit me.”  A player will indicate that he/she wants no more cards by saying: “I’ll stay.”  Once all players have “stayed,” their final hands are revealed and the player, whose points are closest or equal to 21 without going over, is the winner of the hand.  The instructor will then have each player read the answer on each of his/her overturned cards.

Suggested Intervention Timeline:

The instructor may wish to break up the 12 weeks of intervention into four- week blocks, i.e., he/she may use the answer deck(s) for four weeks of intervention, then progress to the fill-in-the-blank deck(s) for the next four weeks, and the question deck(s) for the final four weeks, always keeping in mind the individual needs of the student(s) and adapting accordingly.


Data Collection:

Baseline data may be collected on the student(s) using the question cards.  Other data points may be collected during the use of the fill-in-the-blank cards and the question cards, across the twelve weeks of intervention required by RTI.


Variations:

1. Other familiar card games may be adapted and used with the Curriculum Content Cards, as long as the students have an opportunity to read and learn the answers and questions.

2. Cards may also be used as flash cards.


***The instructor may offer oral/written examples of the concepts on the individual cards.