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Reading Recovery is a short-term early intervention for Grade 1 students who are struggling to learn to read and write.
Reading Recovery is a short-term early intervention for Grade 1 students who are struggling to learn to read and write.
- piloted in New Zealand in 1976 by Dr. Marie Clay
- piloted in the US in 1984
- started Reading Recovery at Lincoln Elementary in 2001.
HOW IT WORKS
One-to-one for the lowest achieving first graders
30-minute daily lessons
Results in weeks, not years
All students make progress
Two positive outcomes after intervention
What do they do in lessons?
What do they do in lessons?
Familiar reading
Rereading of yesterday’s book
Letter work and word work
Write a story, cut up the sentence and put it back together
New book to take home and practice reading
IMG_0648.MOVIn this video you can see a 1st grade student reading a story with Mrs. Swenson. Lots of great connections and practice while reading and gaining confidence.
IMG_0647.MOVStudent Reading
Student Reading
Letter & Word Work
Letter & Word Work
Writing a Story
Writing a Story
Cut up Sentence
Cut up Sentence
IMG_0659.MOVWriting a Story
Writing a Story
Students create their own sentences and practice writing the words correctly. Mrs. Swenson is taking data and recording the student work throughout the lesson. If a mistake is made, she covers it with tape and they work out how to make a correction.
Mrs. Swenson keeps a record of the vocabulary words that each student uses in their reading and writing. The example above shows an example of a typical 1st grade student's vocabulary list before and after Reading Recovery.
Students work on hearing letter sounds and pairs and practice strategies to break tricky words down and figure out how to read and write them. In the image to the left a student is working on fixing the word down for her story about sledding down a snow hill. The image on the right show how a Reading Recovery student develops in their word work and sentence writing.
90% of Reading Recovery students are able to read and write at grade level at the end of their 20 week intervention. The example above shows a typical book before and after RR lessons.
Students get a take home bag at the end of the lesson. Inside the bag they have a familiar book to practice reading, a new book to learn to read, and a practice notebook with the story they wrote.
Thank you Mrs. Jean Swenson & students
Thank you Mrs. Jean Swenson & students
I really enjoyed watching the thinking, learning and growing happening in the class. Seeing students learning to read and feel successful in their work is so satisfying to watch. Thanks again!
The goal of Reading Recovery is to dramatically reduce the number of first grade students who have extreme difficulty learning to read and write and to reduce the cost of these learners to educational systems.
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