Reading Recovery is a program for children in year one who have been identified as needing additional assistance with reading and writing. A specially trained Reading Recovery teacher teaches the Reading Recovery program.
Every day the child receives a thirty minute individual Reading Recovery lesson in addition to their regular classroom reading and writing program.
Every day the Reading Recovery teacher works individually with the child who:
* reads three or four familiar books to gain confidence in reading,
* writes a sentence using their own ideas,
* re-assembles the cut-up sentence to practice searching for words,
* works with letters and words to assist in spelling,
* reads a new book to further develop reading skills.
A child may participate in the Reading Recovery program for twelve to twenty weeks.
The Reading Recovery web site is located at www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/eys/rr