Reading Recovery

Reading Recovery is a supplemental literacy intervention for first-grade students with low literacy achievement. The program provides daily one-on-one tutoring sessions lasting 30 minutes each, delivered over 12 to 20 weeks by specially trained Reading Recovery teachers. Each lesson is tailored to individual student needs based on ongoing observations and assessments of student strengths and weaknesses. Instruction incorporates phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, writing, oral language, and motivation as needed. Students are pulled out of regular non-literacy instruction during school hours while continuing to participate in their classroom's typical literacy instruction. Teachers must complete a full academic year of graduate-level training under a registered Reading Recovery teacher leader, including a weeklong training on administering the Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement screening assessment, ongoing professional development sessions (at least six times per year), and supervised practice implementing the intervention with students.