Reading Recovery

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Basic Facts about Reading Recovery

ReadingRecovery.org

All first grade students are tested at the beginning of the school year, then students who fit the criteria for Reading Recovery are then selected and begin their short term one-on-one tutoring.

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.