Reading Recovery
University Training Center
Is Reading Recovery Instruction Effective?
In each Reading Recovery lesson, students work on learning the phonemic awareness, phonics, word recognition, reading fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills that they need in order to experience success in their first grade classrooms. Reading Recovery teaching is based on extensive assessment of each individual student’s current literacy knowledge, and most students are able to complete the program successfully in 12 to 20 weeks of daily instruction (or about 30 to 50 hours of intervention). Reading Recovery teachers are expert in early literacy intervention for struggling learners. They participate in intensive professional development, including a year long university-affiliated initial training program. Although many first grade students can be assisted by participation in small-group intervention within classroom settings, those students who are experiencing a high degree of challenge need the individual attention of one-on-one lessons from a specially trained teacher before they experience years of academic failure.
Reading Recovery instruction helps to prevent later costs associated with students’ continued academic failure, on behalf of students who are struggling with literacy learning in first grade and the school systems that support them. For more information on Reading Recovery’s cost effectiveness, click here. Data on the results of Reading Recovery instruction in the United States are collected for all students by the National Data Evaluation Center. Research studies have also documented the effectiveness of Reading Recovery instruction on student achievement.
For videos on Reading Recovery instruction, cost effectiveness, and
teacher training, see
http://www.readingrecovery.org/sections/home/videos/index.asp
To Contact Us: Dr. Sharan A. Gibson School of Teacher Education San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182-1153 Tel: (619) 594-3241 Fax: (619) 594-4350
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We are located at: San Diego State University Literacy Center 4283 El Cajon Boulevard, Suite 200 San Diego, CA 92105 |
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