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Reading Recovery Works!

     "Reading Recovery helps struggling beginning readers and writers in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. The intervention requires on-going data collection for each and every child who has lessons. In the United States evaluation is conducted by the International Data Evaluation Center (IDEC) located at The Ohio State University. Results are consistent across 25 years and include more than 2 million Reading Recovery students. Because accountability is a key part of Reading Recovery, administrators receive annual reports at the teacher, school, and district level.

     Reading Recovery is a thoroughly researched and proven early literacy intervention. It has also been reconstructed for children learning to read in Spanish (Descubriendo la Lectura) and French (Intervention Préventive en LectureÉcriture), and these interventions achieve parallel results for struggling readers. In fact, achievement gaps are greatly reduced or closed across varying racial and ethnic groups, socioeconomic groups, and for English language learners.

     More than 100 research studies have documented Reading Recovery’s benefits for students and schools. For an online review of key studies see www.readingrecovery.org  or clink on the links below for more information.

Key Findings About Reading Recovery
  • Reading Recovery students outperform control group students on multiple literacy tests measuring reading and writing abilities.
  • Costly long-term remediation is eliminated for many children.
  • One-to-one tutoring with a Reading Recovery trained teacher provides superior results to small-group instruction.
  • 75% of Reading Recovery students read at grade level after a full series of lessons.
  • 99% of Reading Recovery students who successfully complete Reading Recovery lessons don't need to be referred to special education at the end of Grade 1."
                                                                                                                                          Source: Reading Recovery Overview, RRCNA Publication, 2012

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Scientific Evidence for Reading Recovery

Training for Reading Recovery


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