Goal of Reading Recovery
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.
Source: Reading Recovery Council of North America (RRCNA) |
Basic Facts About Reading Recovery (RRCNA)
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.
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.
Reading Recovery Lesson Structure
1. Familiar BooksIn every lesson students get to read lots of little books. Students get to pick their favorite stories they have read before. This is easy for students and they try to read these books like a story and make it sound like people are talking.
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2. Running Record book
Now students have to read the new book from yesterday by themselves. As the students read, I keep a Running Record of their reading behavior. If a student just can't figure out a word I will tell them the word so they can keep going. After students read the story, I will go back to help them with the tricky parts.
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3. Letter Work
Many times, students need to do work on learning about letters or important word chunks. I know what students need to learn by my observations and note taking system. Students manipulate magnetic letters on the dry board. This movement helps students understand what they are learning.
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6. New Book Orientation and First Read of New Book
I pick out a new story for each Reading Recovery student every day. We look at the story, characters, animals and special features in the book. I help students pick out some new, important words in their story. It helps students have more success when it is their turn to read the story for the first time. When students come to hard parts, I ask students questions to help them think about what to do. I also, will show students what to try at hard part. I am teaching what good readers do!
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Reading at Home
I ask my beginning readers to practice reading 5-10 minutes at home every day. Click on this document below to get tips and tricks for reading at home.
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Reading Recovery Professional Development
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As a Reading Recovery teacher, I get to attend professional development once a month with Dr. Zalud, a professor from USD. Reading Recovery teachers take turns bringing students "behind the glass". Colleagues, principals and parents watch and discuss the child's reading behavior from the viewing area on one side of the glass and the Reading Recovery teachers a lesson on the other side. We learn so much from doing this, even though it can be stressful.
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Reading and Writing Reciprocity
So often young readers don't understand the link between reading and writing simply because it doesn't come natural. We need to help them. This is a prompting chart for me to use to facilitate reciprocity with my Reading Recovery students.