Reading Recovery continues in our school. The daily lessons are tailored to each child’s learning needs, incorporating a variety of reading and writing tasks which will ensure success for the child
What is Reading Recovery?
In Reading Recovery a typical tutoring session would include each of these activities, usually in the following order, as the format of the daily lesson:
What is Reading Recovery?
- Reading Recovery (RR) is an early intervention, designed to provide children who have particular difficulties in reading and writing after their first year in primary school, a period of intensive, individual teaching.
- It is a school-based intervention designed to reduce literacy problems within an education system.
- The intervention is not solely concerned with improving the reading and writing skills of the lowest achieving children in the age band in the mainstream class (around age six) but also helps them to develop more effective literacy strategies so that they will be able to continue to work at age appropriate levels and to progress satisfactorily in their own school’s instruction programme.
- A child’s RR series of lessons is finished when he or she is judged to be able to cope well with reading and writing and work successfully at age appropriate levels. The aim is that, with a fully trained RR teacher, this should be achieved within 12-20 weeks. As soon as the child leaves Reading Recovery, another enters and this rolling intervention continues throughout the year.
- A Reading Recovery teacher may succeed in providing RR to at least ten children during the year.
- Children entering Reading Recovery are those who have had the most difficulty in reading and writing after one year at school. Reading Recovery is directed at thelowest achieving six year olds (approx.) in the mainstream class, without exception.
- The intervention is different for every child. The starting point is the child’s strengths and the teacher builds upon what the child is able, and trying to do.
- The teaching is individually designed and individually delivered. Each child has an intensive series of 30-minute lessons, daily. The instruction is supplementaryto normal class teaching.
- The focus of each lesson is on comprehending messages in reading and constructing messages in writing. In every lesson, children read several small books and write their own stories, learning how to attend to detail without losing focus on meaning.
In Reading Recovery a typical tutoring session would include each of these activities, usually in the following order, as the format of the daily lesson:
- reading two or more familiar books
- rereading yesterday’s new book and taking a running record
- working with letter identification
- breaking words into parts
- composing and writing a story
- hearing and recording sounds in words
- reconstructing the cut-up story
- listening to the new book introduction
- attempting to read the new book’