Reading Recovery

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Reading Recovery

• Laura Jennings
• Jackie Martin
• Conny Melvin
• Colleen Mullane
• Andrea Purvis

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Reading Recovery

• Developed in 1976
• Introduced in the United States in 1984
• Early intervention for children having difficulty
  with entry level reading skills
• Goal
• 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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Reading Recovery

• Saving a child, one at a time
• Teachers trained focus on students strengths not
  deficits
• Three main components
• Teacher Training
• Three level Professional Development
• One full academic year
• Daily teaching of students
• Weekly after-school classes
• The Diagnostic Survey
• Tutoring Session

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Implementing Reading Recovery

• Short Term Intervention
• Specially trained teachers give the lessons
• 30 minute daily lessons
• 12 to 20 weeks
• 1 on 1
• Teacher creates
• Problem-solving opportunities
• Provides only enough support to help develop the
  techniques
• http//www.readingrecovery.org/reading_recovery/fa
  q/ECONOMY.mov

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Reading Recovery Lessons

• Lessons consists
• Reading familiar books
• Reading a book from the day before
• Working with letters and/or words using magnetic
• letters
• Writing a story
• Assembling a cut-up story
• Reading a new book
• Lessons are discontinued upon student
• meeting grade-level expectations

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Reading Recovery

• Training can be pricey
• Reading Recovery is for individuals
• Each lesson is individually prepared for the
• student
• Most students who complete the program can
  perform within the average achievement range
• of grade level students
• Once program is completed no additional help
• is needed

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Links for Reading Recovery

• http//www.ndec.us/
• This site provides educators with data they need
  to evaluate their RR program.
• http//www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/programs/rr/RRoverview.
  html
• An overview of RR from California State
  University.
• http//www.readingrecovery.org/reading_recovery/fa
  q/videos_page.asp
• Videos of RR in action.

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Resources (continued)

• Reading Recovery Council of North America.
  (2007). Reading recovery
• Basic facts. Retrieved August 26, 2007 from
• http//www.readingrecovery.org/reading_recove
  ry/facts/index.asp.
• Thomas, R.L. (1992). Reading recovery. Office of
  Research Education
• Consumer Guide 3. Retrieved August 27, 2007
  from
• http//www.ed.gov/pubs/OR/ConsumerGuides/read
  rec.html.
• Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human
  Development. (2007).
• Peer Assisted Learning Strategies
  Strategies for Successful Learning.
• Retrieved August 26, 2007 from
• www.peerassistedlearningstrategies.com.