What is Reading Recovery?
Reading Recovery was developed by Dr. Marie Clay, a New Zealand educator and researcher.  Many schools across the U.S. are integrating Reading Recovery into their schools.  Since 1984, when Reading Recovery was introduced to the U.S., over 1.5 million first graders have received Reading Recovery.

The main goal for Reading Recovery is to reduce the number of first grade students who exhibit extreme difficulities in reading and writing and to lower the cost of these learners to school systems.

Reading Recovery is an intense, short-term intervention program for selected first grade students.  The program is designed for 1-on-1 instruction for 30 minutes every day for 12-15 weeks, with a maximum up to 20 weeks.  Each lesson consists of reading familiar stories, reading a story that was read for the first time the day before, working with letters and/or words using magnetic letters, writing a story, assembling a cut-up story, and reading a new book.  Reading Recovery is an individualized program.  I analyze each students' strengths and weaknesses and this help me to teach and demonstrate problem solving strategies while providing support for the student's to develop effective strategies for reading and writing.  When each of the student's have reached their class average, their lessons are discontinued and new students start Reading Recovery.

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