Kingston City School District - Students Are Our Most Valuable Asset

Reading Recovery

Reading Recovery is a research-based, short-term intervention of one-to-one teaching for the lowest achieving first graders

Reading Recovery students receive 30 minute lessons each school day for 12 to 20 weeks from a specially trained teacher

As soon as students can read and write at grade level and demonstrate that they can continue to achieve, their lessons are discontinued and new students receive individual instruction

Reading Recovery is part of a district’s comprehensive literacy plan and serves as a safety net for first grade children who need support beyond excellent classroom instruction

In the United States, there are 15,000 Reading Recovery Teachers in 8,700 elementary schools and 2,800 school districts.

Reading Recovery in the Hudson Valley and Catskill Region

The Kingston City School District has maintained a Reading Recovery Training Site since 1993. Over the past 16 years many area teachers have been trained.

This year, 22 Kingston Reading Recovery teachers will serve the district’s first graders. An additional 23 teachers from neighboring districts will receive ongoing professional development at the Kingston site.

The site serves:

11 school districts
in 23 elementary schools
across 7 counties including Ulster, Dutchess, Columbia, Greene, Orange, Delaware, and Schoharie

Over 300 children in our area will receive Reading Recovery tutoring this year.

The Kingston Reading Recovery site is affiliated with New York University’s Reading Recovery Project.