Elementary
Reading Recovery in ISD 833
Reading Recovery is a short-term, early intervention program designed to help
the lowest-achieving first graders develop effective strategies for reading and
enable them to read within the average range for first grade. Children are
selected for participation in the Reading Recovery program through a combination
of teacher judgment and independently administered assessments.
Students who participate in the Reading Recovery program receive an individual
lesson for thirty minutes each day in addition to the regular classroom literacy
instruction. The lessons are individually tailored to each student, and
instruction is provided by a certified Reading Recovery teacher. Reading
Recovery teachers have taken an additional year of professional coursework and
participate in regular continuing education as long as they are involved in the
program.
Reading Recovery students participate in the program for a period of 12 to 20
weeks. Students who successfully complete the program demonstrate evidence of
independent strategic reading and are able to participate in classroom reading
instruction at appropriate levels for their class. Then the program is
“discontinued” for that student and another student enters the program.
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