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READING RECOVERY

WHAT IS READING RECOVERY?

 

Reading Recovery is a thoroughly researched
and proven early literacy intervention for the
lowest-achieving first graders. Individual students work
one-to-one with a specially trained teacher.
After a full series of lessons, about 72% of students
achieve grade-level standard.
Reading Recovery received the highest possible rating
for general reading achievement of all beginning reading
programs reviewed by the What Works Clearinghouse.

 

HOW IT WORKS

Individual students receive a half-hour lesson each school day for 12 to 20 weeks with a specially trained Reading Recovery teacher. As soon as students can meet grade-level expectations and demonstrate that they can continue to work independently in the classroom, their lessons are discontinued, and new students begin individual instruction.

AFTER COMPLETING LESSONS, STUDENTS CAN:

  • Read increasingly more difficult texts at an instructional level, expanding their power to learn from their own efforts and solve problems as they read and write.

  • Compose increasingly complex messages using resources to solve new words: students monitor and edit their work, knowing when and how to get help.

  • Continue to learn with supportive classroom instruction.