Reading Recovery

Reading Recovery is a short-term early intervention designed to help the lowest-achieving readers in first grade reach average levels of classroom performance in literacy. Students identified to receive Reading Recovery meet individually with a specially trained Reading Recovery (RR) teacher every school day for 30-minute lessons over a period of 12 to 20 weeks. The intervention targets the lowest-achieving 15-20 percent of 1st-grade readers. RR teachers are trained through a year-long academic program that includes graduate coursework, behind-the-glass training sessions, and ongoing professional development. The intervention includes daily one-on-one lessons with a structured format: re-reading familiar books, running records, word/letter work, story composition, assembling cut-up sentences, and reading new books. RR teachers also assess students using the Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement and maintain detailed records of student progress.