About 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.
Literacy Lessons: New Professional Development for Teachers in Special Education Settings and for ESL Teachers
We are pleased to offer a new course of study for teachers working in special education or ESL settings with students having difficulty learning to read and write.
Click here for more information about Literacy Lessons.
Comprehensive Early Literacy Professional Development
Teacher leaders provide comprehensive professional development to Reading Recovery teachers, Special Education teachers, ESL teachers, and Classroom teachers who need to provide intensified literacy instruction. For more information about the comprehensive professional development that teacher leaders can provide, click here (PDF).
The New Face of Reading Recovery
Hello, I'm Cathy Kint and I am currently a Reading Recovery teacher and Reading Specialist in Circleville City Schools. I have been a teacher for 13 years and a Reading Recovery teacher for 12 years. As a Reading Recovery teacher I teach about 9 students a year and as a Specialist I work with around 22 second graders in small groups of two students each. In the past I have also been a classroom teacher/Reading Recovery teacher in both first and second grade. I have been able to serve about the same number of students in both roles.
Our district qualifies its Reading Recovery teachers as the top tier in the RTI model providing one-on-one or two-on-one intervention. We also have other specialists who work with students in groups of 3 or 4. I have also served as Literacy Coordinator/Reading Recovery teacher in the past. I traveled to other buildings to work with at-risk students (about 25 per year) and maintained my 8-9 Reading Recovery students.
In addition to the above mentioned roles I also serve as a district consultant for ESL students. I do this during early morning hours in the middle and high school when my students haven't arrived yet at the elementary. I also meet with ESL students in my building prior to the beginning of the school day.
Becker Tuition Scholarship and Pinnell Implementation Grant funds awarded
Congratulations to the following districts training a Teacher Leader during 2010-11:
- Jackson Local Schools
- Warren City Schools
- Delaware City Schools
Each district has been awarded funds from the Becker Tuition Scholarship and Pinnell Implementation Grant to support training costs.
- Information about establishing a new Regional Reading Recovery Teacher Training Site
- Reading Recovery teacher leader application packet
Contacts:
- Dr. Patricia Scharer (614-292-2480)
- Dr. Emily Rodgers (614-292-9288)
Reading Recovery Earns High Marks from the What Works Clearinghouse
Reading Recovery received the highest marks from the What Works Clearinghouse, a division of the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences. Of the 153 beginning reading programs reviewed, only Reading Recovery was found to have positive effects across all four literacy domains and only Reading Recovery received the highest possible rating for general reading achievement.
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) released a 3-year independent review of the experimental research on Reading Recovery in March 2007. This authoritative, independent assessment clearly establishes that Reading Recovery is an effective intervention based on scientific evidence. The WWC found that Reading Recovery has positive effects—the WWC’s highest rating—on students’ alphabetics skills and general reading achievement. They found potentially positive effects, their next highest level of evidence, on fluency and comprehension outcomes. See http://www.whatworks.ed.gov/ for details and select Beginning Reading, then Reading Recovery.