| Title: | Reading Recovery® |
| Description: | Reading Recovery® is a short-term tutoring intervention program intended to serve the lowest achieving (bottom 20%) first-grade students. According to the Reading Recovery® website, lessons incorporate the program's ten principles: phonological awareness, visual perception of letters, word recognition, phonics/decoding skills, phonics/structural analysis, fluency/automaticity, comprehension, a balanced literacy approach, early intervention, and individual tutoring. Students are chosen for Reading Recovery® by school staff, and selection is based on prior reading achievement, diagnostic testing (the Clay Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement), and teacher recommendations. The goals of Reading Recovery® are to promote literacy skills and reduce the number of first-grade students who are struggling to read. The program supplements classroom teaching with one-on-one tutoring sessions, generally conducted as pull-out sessions during the school day. Tutoring, which is conducted by trained Reading Recovery® teachers, takes place daily for 30 minutes over 12–20 weeks. |
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| Cover Date: | March 2007 |
| Web Release: | March 19, 2007 |
| Publication #: | WWC IRBRRR07 |
| Center/Program: | WWC |
| Type of Product: | Intervention Report |
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