The IRA Commission on Response to Intervention (RTI) has adopted six key principles to guide members' thinking and professional work in the area of RTI. These principles are focused specifically on RTI as it intersects with issues of language and literacy and are meant to help classroom teachers, reading/literacy specialists, speech-language pathologists, teachers of English learners, special educators, administrators, and others as they work toward the g oals of preventing language and literacy difficulties among America's children and improving instruction in these areas for all students.