Reading Recovery®: Top to Bottom

From the Upper Peninsula to Southern Michigan

June 2022

“Reading Recovery has one clear goal: To dramatically reduce the number of learners who have extreme difficulty with literacy learning and the cost of these learners to educational systems."

– MARIE M. CLAY, Founder, Reading Recovery

"Reading Recovery is an incredibly effective early literacy intervention with the lowest achieving first grade children." (May et al, 2013, 2015a, 2015b, 2022)

zoom_out_map

In the News

Emily Hanford is at it again - as a journalist and not an educator she has again made claims that Reading Recovery does not work in the face of over 30 years of research to the contrary. RRCNA has the following response to her claims. Please reach out to your Reading Recovery Teacher Leader and your Reading Recovery Teachers to learn more about the investment and impact you are making in your school and with your teachers and students.

If you are wondering as an administrator what you can do, take a look at the link below 'Challenges & Considerations' on the 2nd page last section there are questions to help improve the implementation of Reading Recovery in your school.

RRCNA Response to Long Term Impacts of RR

May Study Synopsis

Challenges & Considerations

Making sense of reading's forever wars

Article by Leah Duran & Michiko Hikida

EVERY CHILD EVERY DAY CHECKLIST

Two minutes reminding the us all of the important aspects of high-quality instruction

Invest in teachers, not programs

To overcome literacy woes, invest in teachers, not programs By JaNiece Elzy

Developing Teacher Expertise

A highly qualified teacher makes a difference in student outcomes, especially for children having difficulties. Reading Recovery’s professional development is widely acclaimed as an investment in the professional skills of teachers and a model worth emulating (Herman & Stringfield, 1997). As you plan for the fall, please consider the following professional development for teachers in order to support our most at-risk learners.

Reading Recovery Teacher Training
Certified/licensed educators at the elementary school level participate 10 graduate credit, year-long Reading Recovery Teacher Training program. During the training year, educators learn to implement specialized reading methods with young children most at risk for reading difficulties. Educators observe, record, analyze and modify the reading and writing behavior of children and develop understandings of reading acquisition.

Literacy Lessons Teacher Training
Specialist educators (certified as special educators or teachers of English language learners) who want to enhance their knowledge of literacy processing with special populations of learners. These specialist educators participate in the 8 graduate credit, year-long Literacy Lessons program.

Literacy Support Teacher Training
Classroom teachers and reading interventionists who want to enhance their knowledge of literacy processing in work with students in whole class or small group instructional settings participate in the 8 graduate credit year-long Literacy Support Training program.

Literacy Lessons and Literacy Support may only be implemented in schools that include Reading Recovery as an early literacy intervention. For more information on trainings classes for fall, please contact your site's Teacher Leader.