What is Reading Recovery?

Facts About Reading Recovery:

What:

• Reading Recovery is a highly effective short-term intervention of one-to-one tutoring for low-achieving first graders. The intervention is most effective when it is available to all students who need it and is used as a supplement to good classroom teaching.

Who:

• Reading Recovery serves the lowest-achieving first graders—the students who are not catching on to the complex set of concepts that make reading and writing possible.

How:

• 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.

Where:

• Reading Recovery operates in schools throughout the United States, Canada and Australia.

~ Reading Recovery Council of North America

For more information about this important program, please follow the links below:

• Reading Recovery Council of North America
• Article: "How Reading Recovery Helps Your Child Learn"
• Resources for Parents and Families
• Once your child has begun Reading Recovery, this helpful article: A Parent Guide to Reading Recovery