READING RECOVERY

Reading Recovery provides an additional opportunity for children who are having difficulty learning to read and write.  The program complements the Early Years Grade One Literacy Classroom Program and identifies the needs of each child and then teaches them to overcome their literacy learning difficulties.Children participating in the program attend a daily thirty minute individual session. A child may participate in the program for twelve to twenty weeks. Each 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 practise searching for words
• Works with letters and words to assist in spelling
• Reads a new book to further develop reading skills