At P.S. 506, Reading Recovery is a highly effective short-term intervention of one-to-one tutoring for low-achieving first graders who work with specially trained teachers to assess each child’s strengths and confusions. The goal of Reading Recovery is to dramatically reduce the number of first-grade students who have extreme difficulty learning to read and write. 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.
Objectives of:
The Reading Recovery Lesson -to promote accelerated learning so that students can catch up to their peers, close the achievement gap as quickly as possible, and can benefit from classroom instruction without supplemental help.
Individually Designed Lesson -Daily 30 minute Reading Recovery lessons are individually designed and individually delivered by specially trained teachers who use awide range of procedures and make moment-by-moment decisions within each lesson to support the individual child.
Assessment Based on Systematic Observation -Careful observation of reading and writing behaviors are initially done during the first ten sessions as the child engages in reading and writing, which then guides teaching decisions. Then, as the teachers gather data they align their teaching with what a child actually does. Specifically, the teacher takes a running record of the child’s progress on text reading every day and uses other observational data to inform instruction: daily lesson records, students’writing, and change over time in reading and writing vocabulary.
Lesson Content -Each lesson consists of reading familiar books, reading yesterday’s new book, and taking a running record, working with letters and /or words using magnetic letters, writing a story, assembling a cut-up story, and reading a new book. In addition,the teacher creates opportunities for the child to problem solve and provides just enough support to help the child develop strategic behaviors to use on texts in both reading and writing.
PhonemicAwareness, Phonics, Spelling, Comprehension, and Fluency- Reading Recovery encourages comprehension and problem solving with printing so that decoding is purposeful and students read fluently. Every Reading Recovery lesson incorporates learning about letter/sound relationships. Children area taught to hear and record sounds and to work with spelling patterns.
Outcomes ofLessons- A series of Reading Recovery lessons have two positive outcomes, they are as follows:
The child meetsgrade-level expectations and can make progress with classroom instruction, no longer needing extra help.(The outcome for approximately 75% of the children with complete Reading Recovery intervention.)
The child makes significant progress but does not reach grade-level expectations. Additional evaluation is recommended and further action is initiated to help the child continue making progress.