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Intervention Details

Subject

English Language Arts

Academic Program

General Education

Duration

12-20 weeks, 30 minutes per day

Grade

1

Personnel

Tutor

Intervention Summary

Reading Recovery is a short-term intervention that provides one-on-one tutoring to first-grade students who are struggling in reading. The supplementary program aims to promote literacy skills and foster the development of reading strategies by tailoring individualized lessons to each student. Tutoring is delivered by Reading Recovery teachers in 30-minute pull-out sessions, which include reading familiar books, story composition, assembling stories using cut-up sentences, and previewing and reading new books. Sessions are held daily for 12-20 weeks.

Statistical Finding Summary

Positive effect on general reading achievement

Positive effect on reading comprehension

Source

(2014). WWC Review of the Report "Evaluation of the i3 Scale-up of Reading Recovery Year One Report, 2011-12." What Works Clearinghouse Single Study Review (ED547670). ERIC. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED547670.pdf.

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