Reading Recovery
Reading Recovery is an effective early literacy intervention, designed to dramatically reduce the number of children with reading and writing difficulties in an education system. Reading Recovery identifies at-risk children early and provides a short-term teaching program delivered by a specially trained Reading Recovery teacher. Six-year-old, Grade 1 children who have not responded well to classroom instruction and thus have not developed efficient patterns of learning, can make accelerated progress and be brought to the average achievement level of their classmates within approximately 12-20 weeks of individual instruction.
Reading Recovery was developed in New Zealand by educator and psychologist, Dame Marie Clay. Since 1984, Reading Recovery has also been successfully implemented in: Anguilla, Australia, Bermuda, Canada, Denmark, England, Jersey, Northern Ireland, the United States and Wales.