What is Reading Recovery?
What is Reading Recovery?
- Reading Recovery is an early intervention program for first grade students.
- It is a supplemental reading program that does not take the place of reading instruction in the classroom.
- Specially trained Reading Recovery teachers meet with students individually for thirty minutes daily.
Students in the Reading Recovery® program are taught to:
- Use strategies that will help them become better readers and writers.
- Use the meaning of the story and structure of language (or grammar).
- Use the sounds to decode difficult words.
- Learn how to "learn words" to become problem-solvers.
Reading Recovery students are in the program for an average of 16-20 weeks:
- When they make the necessary progress as determined by the classroom teacher, the Reading Recovery teacher and the Reading Recovery teacher leader, they are discontinued from the program.
- Reading Recovery students are expected to continue to make progress in the classroom as an average first grader.
Essential components of a successful program:
- Student is in school every day!
- Parent listens to student read at home!
- Close collaboration between parent, classroom teacher and Reading Recovery teacher.
Lesson Components:
- Familiar re-reads
- Running Record on Book from previous day
- Letter work/ Word Work
- Generating and Composing a Story (Writing)
- Cut-up sentence
- New Book