Reading Recovery is a supplementary education program that aims to offer the lowest-achieving first-grade children an effective method of English language reading and writing instruction. It was designed to compromise between the two "schools" of beginning reading education, intensive phonics instruction and the whole language approach.
The program was developed in the 1970s by New Zealand educator Dr. Marie Clay. In 1984 Dr. Gay Su Pinnell and Dr. Charlotte Huck of Ohio State University introduced the method to the United States. "Reading Recovery" is a registered trademark of Ohio State University in the U.S.
Reading Recovery sites operated in four Canadian provinces, 48 U.S. States, and the District of Columbia. Approximately 60,000 North American children were served by Reading Recovery educators during the 1993-94 school year. In California alone, more than 500 school districts served approximately 5000 children. (Schwartz & Klein, 1996) The program is also implemented in Australia, Canada, and England. According to its inventors and advocators, Reading Recovery combines extensive teacher education with an emphasis on the development of phonological awareness and the use of contextual information to assist reading. They claim it to be an educationally sound and cost-effective early intervention program for helping children who are at-risk of early reading failure.
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Reading Recovery Council of North America - News articles, membership information and upcoming events.
Meta Description: [ The Reading Recovery Council of North America is the member organization working to ensure access for children who need Reading Recovery. Reading Recovery is a highly effective short-term early intervention of one-on-one instruction for low-achieving first graders -- the students who are not ca... ]
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A Scientifically Based Analysis - A synthesis of recent research
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An Evaluation of Costs and Benefits - A paper which examines the cost-effectiveness of the Reading Recovery approach and finds it lacking.
Education Commission of the States - Review of the intervention with bibliography
ERIC Digest - This ERIC Digest discusses elements of the program, describes a typical lesson, addresses the importance of teacher education, reviews the existing literature in the ERIC database, and discusses cost effectiveness.
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Heinemann - Publisher of many works by the intervention's founder, Marie Clay.
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Indicators, Benchmarks, and Evidence - The Center for Research in Educational Policy suggests a template for evaluating implementations.
Just the Facts - AVKO Dyslexia - Spelling Research Foundation presents a summary of critical research.
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National Data Evaluation Center - NDEC processes evaluation research data for the United States. Its web site provides methodological documentation, and allows data entry by teachers.
NRRF - Observations on Reading Recovery - An evaluation of books published by Marie Clay.
NRRF - Phonological Processing Study - Examines the relationship between the development of phonological processing skills and the effectiveness of the intervention.
NRRF - San Diego Research Project - Compares the academic performance students in San Diego based on norm reference tests and literacy assessment portfolios.
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Provide the Evidence - EducationNews makes an offer to serve as a clearing house for data.
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Reading Excellence Grant - Kansas - Reading Recovery and the Kansas Advanced Literacy Learning model share a common framework.
Reading Excellence Grant - Kentucky - Kentucky legislation provides for the creation of a University Training Center.
Reading Excellence Grant - Vermont - Schools in Vermont that have full and high-quality implementations find the intervention to make a significant and sustaining contribution.
Reading Recovery Council of California - Promotes reading and literacy intervention, reading and writing instruction and professional development.
Reading Recovery National Network - U.K. Institute of Education explain how teachers can turn young children into fluent effective readers.
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Reading Recovery Overview - An overview of the intervention as written by educators from the University of California San Bernadino.
Research in Reading Recovery - A collection of academic research about the effectiveness of the Reading Recovery approach.
Research Monograph - A summary of evidence prior to 1996 documenting the success of the intervention.
South Carolina Department of Education - Teacher nomination and application forms from the Office of Curriculum and Standards.
Teachers.Net - Remedial Reading/Reading Recovery chatboard
U.S. Department of Education - Education Programs That Work: The catalogue of the National Diffusion Network
U.S. Department of Education - Model Strategies in Bilingual Education: Descubriendo la Lectura
U.S. Department of Education - Progress of Education in the United States of America - 1990 through 1994
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