Early recognition and intervention ensures students a rich and full curriculum that enables them to build a solid foundation of basic skills. For All as a school reform program by facilitating visitations to implementing schools, providing written and multimedia materials, providing research studies and contact information to the SFA Institute. Once a school has adopted SFA, PREL provides technical assistance working with SFA staff on the alignment to state standards, matching the school reform effort to district and state initiatives and change processes. PREL staff members have also helped with data collection, organization, and analysis. Dr. Marie Clay of New Zealand developed the Reading Recovery program.
Teachers deliver an individual program for each student based on the child's strengths and needs.
In the daily individual lessons, students are immersed in reading and writing while learning to use a network of effective strategies. The end result is a child who has developed reading skills at the average level of a regular first grade classroom. The Reading Recovery website, published by Reading Recovery Council of North America, includes research, training, products, a job bank, and more. Currently four Elementary Schools are involved in Reading Recovery, two on Oahu and two on the Big Island. Each teacher works with a minimum of 4 students daily.