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Reading Recovery®
Beginning Reading

Reading Recovery® was found to have positive effects on general reading achievement and potentially positive effects on alphabetics, reading fluency, and comprehension for beginning readers.

Reading Recovery® is an intervention that provides one-on-one tutoring to students in grade 1 with low literacy achievement. This supplemental program aims to improve student reading and writing skills by providing one-on-one tutoring, tailoring the content of each lesson to each student based on observations and analyses of the student strengths and weaknesses from prior lessons. Trained Reading Recovery® teachers deliver tutoring daily in 30-minute one-on-one sessions over the course of 12 to 20 weeks. Reading Recovery® teachers incorporate instruction in topics such as phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, writing, oral language, and motivation depending on student needs.

Findings

3
studies that met standards out of
79
eligible studies reviewed
Outcome
domain
Effectiveness Rating Grades Evidence Tier
Alphabetics Potentially positive effects 1
Comprehension Potentially positive effects 1
Reading achievement Positive effects 1
Reading Fluency Potentially positive effects 1

Last Updated: July 2013

Race

Asian
1%
Black
30%
White
54%

Ethnicity

Hispanic
12%
Not Hispanic or Latino
88%

Gender

Male: 56%
Female: 44%

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65%

Delivery Method

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Individual

Urbanicity

Rural
Suburban
Urban

Locations

OH
Midwest
Note: This summary only includes data from studies that reported sample information. The Intervention Report may include evidence from other studies that met standards, but did not report sample information.


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