Reading Recovery is an early intervention series of lessons, designed to assist students in Grade 1 who, after one year of school, are having difficulty understanding and putting into practice, the process of reading and writing.
Students in Reading Recovery receive a thirty minute intensive, daily lesson to assist them in gaining their full potential in Grade 1. These series of lessons are tailored to suit each child and may take up to 20 weeks to reach a satisfactory standard.
During the Reading Recovery lesson, students are involved in a variety of reading and writing tasks. The Reading Recovery teacher demonstrates and teaches problem-solving strategies and supports the student to develop effective reading and writing processes.
Each lesson includes:
• reading familiar texts
• re-reading a text that was introduced the day before
• working with letters and/or words
• writing a story
• assembling a cut up story
• introducing and reading a new book that will be read independently the next day.
At Mt Waverley Primary School the Reading Recovery teacher, the classroom teacher and the parents work together to support the child.
V. O’Keeffe
Reading Recovery
