About Reading Recovery
Reading Recovery is a 12-20 week evidence-based intervention that helps struggling readers catch up to their peers. Led by specially trained teachers who received extensive professional development, Reading Recovery is designed for one-on-one lessons tailored to meet the student’s individual needs and interests.
Learning with Reading Recovery
Reading Recovery
Reading RecoveryReading Recovery serves the lowest-achieving first graders, the students who are not catching on to the complex set of concepts that make reading and writing possible.
Descubriendo la Lectura
Descubriendo la LecturaDescubriendo la Lectura is designed for first graders having difficulty learning to read and write in classrooms where the language of literacy instruction is Spanish.
L’intervention préventive en lecture-écriture
L’intervention préventive en lecture-écritureL’intervention préventive en lecture-écriture is Reading Recovery in Canada and is also offered in some French First Language and French Immersion Schools.
Literacy Lessons
Literacy LessonsLiteracy Lessons is designed to reach young children in grades 1-4 in special education or ESL settings who are struggling with beginning reading and writing but are not eligible for Reading Recovery.
About Student Assessment
An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement (Clay, 2016) provides a systematic way of capturing early reading and writing behaviors and is the primary assessment tool used in Reading Recovery. Widely used by classroom teachers and researchers, the Observation Survey measures students on 6 different factors of literacy.
Each child in Reading Recovery is assessed using the Observation Survey before entering the intervention, when leaving the intervention, and at the end of the school year. Reading Recovery teachers receive extensive training in the administration, scoring, and interpretation of the Observation Survey.
The National Center of Intensive Intervention has evaluated the Observation Survey as having convincing evidence of effectiveness in its Academic Screening Tools Chart. Learn more about the Observation Survey.
About Evidence-Based Practices
The Foundation for Reading Recovery’s Success
The U.S. Department of Education‘s What Works Clearinghouse reports that Reading Recovery achieves strong results and ranks highest in evidence of effectiveness.
Reading Recovery’s impact on student learning gains is clear in the National Summary for the United States. View the Desubriendo la Lectura report HERE>.
The Canadian National Data Summary, 2018-19 reports positive gains for struggling readers. Read More>
Bring Reading Recovery to Your Struggling Readers
United States
Twelve U.S. colleges and universities host University Training Centers (UTC) for Reading Recovery. Click here to find your UTC, and contact the Center Director for more information about bringing Reading Recovery to your school.
Canada
The Reading Recovery Community also has an extensive network across Canada served by four Regional Institutes. Click here for contact information.
