Reading Recovery is a highly effective short-term intervention of one-on-one tutoring for low-achieving first graders. The intervention is most effective when it is available to all students who need it and is used as a supplement to good classroom teaching. In Reading Recovery, individual students receive a half-hour lesson each school day for 12 to 20 weeks with a specially trained Reading Recovery teacher. As soon as students can read within the average range of their class and demonstrate that they can continue to achieve, their lessons are discontinued, and new students begin individual instruction. The goal of Reading Recovery is to reduce the number of first grade students who have extreme difficulty learning to read and write and to reduce the costs of these learners to educational systems.
How was Reading Recovery developed?
Reading Recovery was developed by New Zealand educator and researcher Dr. Marie M. Clay. Dr. Clay conducted observational research in the mid-1960s that enabled her to design ways to detect children's early reading difficulties. In the mid-1970s, she developed Reading Recovery procedures with teachers and tested the intervention in New Zealand. Since its success in New Zealand, Reading Recovery has spread to Australia, the United States, Canada and Great Britain. More than one million first graders have been served in the United States since Reading Recovery was introduced in the United States in 1984.
How is Reading Recovery implemented in our region?
Since 1992, Kingston City School District, in affiliation with New York University, has been a Reading Recovery Training Site. Professional development is an essential part of Reading Recovery. Training uses a three tiered approach that includes teachers, teacher leaders and university trainers. Professional development for teachers and teacher leaders begins with year-long graduate level study and is followed by ongoing training in succeeding years. Reading Recovery teachers develop observational skills and a repertoire of intervention strategies tailored to meet the individual needs of at-risk students.
As of the 2005-2006 school year, over 5,000 first graders have been served by Reading Recovery ®. Currently, 45 Reading Recovery® Teachers teach children in 23 schools in 9 districts. Our site spans 6 counties including Deleware, Dutchess, Columbia, Green, Orange, and Ulster.
What are the results?
Reading Recovery has a strong tradition of success with the hardest to teach first graders. Since 1984, when Reading Recovery began in the United States 80% of students who complete the full 12 to 20 week series of lessons can read and write within the average range of performance within their class and 59% of all students who have any lessons can do the same.
At the Kingston Reading Recovery Site, our data equals or surpasses the national outcomes.
Who can participate?
Teachers who participate in Reading Recovery training must be employed in a school district that has made a commitment to the implementation of the program. Any school within a radius of 70 miles from Kingston may choose to affiliate with the site.
For more information
To learn more about Reading Recovery, please contact the teacher leaders
Maggie Burud
Reading Recovery
John F. Kennedy Elementary School
107 Gross Street
Kingston, NY 12401
Phone: 845-338-7532
Fax: 845-338-7362
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