School Focus Classroom Connections Other Educational Internet Sites for Elementary Students Reading Recovery is a program designed to give individual attention to first grade students who need additional support learning to read. It intervenes early in a child's education to prevent future reading problems. Its goal is to accelerate students in 12-20 weeks to reach the average reading level of their classes without further help. Children in the program will receive daily individual tutoring by specially trained Reading Recovery teachers. Parents will be invited to observe their child's lesson and to give additional support at home.
Every lesson is very structured and consists of the same parts.
The student writes two or three high frequency words that he knows on a chalkboard. He tries to write them fast and fluently and with correct letter formation. The student reads two or three books he has read before. The student reads the new book from the previous lesson while the teacher records every correct word, error, repetition, omission, and self-correction. The teacher uses this data during the planning of the next lesson to help see what strategies the student is using and to help select an appropriate new book for the next lesson.