Reading Recovery®: Top to Bottom
From the Upper Peninsula to Southern Michigan
October 2018
What is Reading Recovery?
Reading Recovery is a highly effective short-term intervention of daily one-to-one lessons that supplement good classroom teaching for the lowest-achieving first graders. The goal is to dramatically reduce the number of first-grade children with extreme difficulty learning to reading and write and to reduce the cost of these learners to educational systems. Emphasis is on prevention of literacy failure.
Reading Recovery at a glance:
- essential part of a school's comprehensive literacy plan
- highly effective short-term early intervention that prevents literacy difficulties
- scientific research base
- for the lowest-achieving first graders
- supplementary to good classroom teaching
- one-to-one individual teaching
- provided by specially trained certified teachers
- ongoing professional development for teachers
- data-driven teaching to continuously monitor children's progress
- an exemplar for response to intervention
- long-term school commitment to literacy success
Missed Lessons Minimize the potential of both teaching and learning
The Importance of Daily Lessons
How to ensure daily lessons:
- Be proactive in advocating for daily lessons
- Help all staff understand the importance
- Include all stakeholders in agreeing upon a school schedule
- Help families understand the importance
- Alter the time for lessons when a student absence is unavoidable
- Create flexibility among student lesson times
- Schedule testing periods and special events to ensure lessons are not impacted
- Ensure teacher availability for daily lessons
- Support Reading Recovery teachers in doubling up on a student's lessons following an unavoidable absence
For more information: Please see the presentation by International Data Evaluation Center (IDEC) Director of IT and Operations, Jeff Brymer-Bashore. Disproving the myth: Using RR teachers as substitutes has no effect on outcomes. (minute 10:20 to 13:00)
Investing In Teacher Expertise
What people are saying about Reading Recovery...
Administrator:
- Amy Kronemeyer ~ Sault Area Schools Curriculum Director
Parent:
"Addison went from being a bit shy and scared about reading to confident and excited about reading. Instead of us reading to her at night, she started reading to us - her choice!"
- Jeff M. ~ Ezra Eby Elementary School
Reading Recovery/Literacy Lessons/Literacy Support Teacher:
"The strategies and theory I have been learning have been directly applicable to my students in my classroom in addition to my Reading Recovery students. The way I am informing my instruction based on what I have learned in training has already proven to be effective."
- Tanya Dillingham ~ H.T. Smith Elementary
Classroom Teacher:
"When classroom instruction is not enough for my students to make the growth they need, I am thankful there is an intervention that can help get them where they need to be."
- Stacey Pace ~ Sault Area Schools 1st Grade Teacher
Upcoming Events
Reading Recovery Council of Michigan 2018 Institute
Thursday, Nov 15, 2018, 12:00 AM
Somerset Inn, West Big Beaver Road, Troy, MI, USA
Grant applications due Monday, October 15
RRCNA Monthly Twitter Chat
Resources:
- Reading Recovery Council of North America
- A Principal's Guide to Reading Recovery
- Reading Recovery Council of Michigan
- IDEC - International Data Evaluation Center
Information Compiled By Reading Recovery Teacher Leaders:
Eastern Upper Peninsula Intermediate School District Reading Recovery Site
Maeghan McCormick
Jackson County Intermediate School District Reading Recovery Site