Reading Recovery is an intensive, one-on-one, short-term intervention for first grade students. It is designed for students who are not learning to read and write as quickly as their peers. Children in Reading Recovery receive a daily 30-minute lesson from a specially trained Reading Recovery teacher for 12-20 weeks. Reading Recovery is provided to students, in addition to regular classroom instruction, during the school day. Instruction is customized; it is based on your child’s prior knowledge, strengths, interests, and areas needing improvement.

Child reads familiar books

• to build fluency

• to build confidence -to promote independence 

Child reads a story that was read once during the previous lesson

• to allow the teacher to observe strengths and confusions

• to help the teacher observe progress and plan instruction 

Child engages in letter and word work

• to build automatic recognition of letters and words

• to understand how words work -to link reading and writing 

Child writes a sentence or short story

• to link spoken sounds to letters within words

• to understand how reading compliments writing and vice versa

• to develop good writing habits

Child reads a new book

• to apply new learnings from the day’s lesson in a new text

• to build independent problem-solving skills

• to understand that reading is thinking