What is Reading Recovery?

Reading Recovery as an early intervention program designed to help children who are at the lowest levels of achievement in reading and writing to become proficient readers and writers. Early Literacy assists first grade children in catching up with their peers in the first grade.

WHAT ARE THE SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM? Children who are among the lowest achievers in reading within a class are selected to receive 30 minutes of daily one-on-one instruction for a period of up to 20 weeks. Instruction has the following characteristics:

• Teachers focus on each student's strengths, not deficits;
• Students learn strategies that help them to become independent readers;
• Students learn to read by composing and writing their own messages;
• Teachers base instruction on detailed analysis of student behavior and knowledge;
• Students are taught how to predict, confirm, and understand what they read; and
• Teachers can select student reading materials from over 2,000 small books of increasing difficulty.