A Guide for Parents and Children in Reading Recovery®
What is Reading Recovery?
Reading Recovery is a highly effective short-term intervention of one-to-one tutoring for low-achieving first graders. Each day your child will receive a 30 minute lesson that is tailored to his/her reading and writing needs. Reading Recovery is used as a supplement to good classroom teaching.
In Reading Recovery, individual students receive a half-hour lesson each school day for 12 to 20 weeks with a specially trained Reading Recovery teacher. Instruction is provided until the child is reading at or above the average of his or her class and has acquired independent reading and writing strategies.
Each lesson consists of:
· Reading several familiar stories
· Reading a story that was read for the first time the day before
· Working with letters and/or words using magnetic letters
· Assembling a cut-up story
· Reading a new book
Listening to Your Child Read
Each day after school, your child will bring home a bag with several books that have been read during Reading Recovery. Please take the time to listen to your child read these books to you.
If your child needs help when reading this is how you can help:
1. Give him/her time to think.
2. Remind him/her to check the picture and think about the story.
3. Encourage him/her to go back and read again.
4. Help him/her think about the story.
5. Ask him/her to start a tricky word with the first sounds in the word.
6. Help him/her find a part of the word he/she might know.
Writing With Your Child
In Reading Recovery your child is learning that we can write down what we say and what we are thinking about. In every lesson your child uses what he/she knows about sounds, letters, and how our language is put together to write meaningful stories.
Parent Tips:
· If you have difficulty reading a message your child has written, ask your child to read it to you.
· Children will begin to use different combinations of letters to represent words as they become better and better at hearing individual sounds in words.
· As children become more comfortable with writing, they begin to use conventional or standard spelling patterns.
· One way to know a word very well is to be able to write it.
· Make writing at home fun by providing your child with paper, pencils, pens, markers, crayons and an excited and accepting audience – YOU!
Parent Involvement
Parent involvement adds to your child’s success. Nightly homework consists of:
· Listening to your child read the books he/she brings home daily.
· Supervising while your child puts together his/her cut up sentence.
· Returning books to school each day in the reading bag.
· Communicating with your child’s teachers if you have questions or concerns.
Reading to Your Child
· Reading to your child is one of the best ways you can help your child learn to read.
· Reading to your child enriches language development by giving them many opportunities to hear stories that they may not yet be able to read for themselves.
· Reading a story that has parts your child can read with you encourages a love and enthusiasm for reading.
· Read to your child every day if possible.
The Reading Recovery Lesson
Reading several familiar stories
· Helps the child to understand stories and encourages fluent, effortless reading.
· Encourages confidence and promotes independence while reading.
Reading a story that was read once the day before
· Allows the teacher to observe the child’s strengths as well as confusions in reading.
· Helps the teacher check on a child’s progress and plan instruction.
Letter Identification and Word Work
· Helps the child learn fast recognition of letters.
· Helps the child learn how to get to new words from known words.
· Helps the child build an understanding of the process of word construction that they can use while reading and writing.
Writing a sentence or short story
· Encourages the child to use sound and letter relationships to write words and to write known words quickly.
· Helps the child learn to read and write using his/her own natural language patterns.
· Helps the child learn capitalization, punctuation, and sequencing.
Reading a new book that is read independently the next day
· Encourages the child to use previously learned strategies while reading.
· Promotes independent problem solving.
What is Reading Recovery?
Reading Recovery is a highly effective short-term intervention of one-to-one tutoring for low-achieving first graders. Each day your child will receive a 30 minute lesson that is tailored to his/her reading and writing needs. Reading Recovery is used as a supplement to good classroom teaching.
In Reading Recovery, individual students receive a half-hour lesson each school day for 12 to 20 weeks with a specially trained Reading Recovery teacher. Instruction is provided until the child is reading at or above the average of his or her class and has acquired independent reading and writing strategies.
Each lesson consists of:
· Reading several familiar stories
· Reading a story that was read for the first time the day before
· Working with letters and/or words using magnetic letters
· Assembling a cut-up story
· Reading a new book
Listening to Your Child Read
Each day after school, your child will bring home a bag with several books that have been read during Reading Recovery. Please take the time to listen to your child read these books to you.
If your child needs help when reading this is how you can help:
1. Give him/her time to think.
2. Remind him/her to check the picture and think about the story.
3. Encourage him/her to go back and read again.
4. Help him/her think about the story.
5. Ask him/her to start a tricky word with the first sounds in the word.
6. Help him/her find a part of the word he/she might know.
Writing With Your Child
In Reading Recovery your child is learning that we can write down what we say and what we are thinking about. In every lesson your child uses what he/she knows about sounds, letters, and how our language is put together to write meaningful stories.
Parent Tips:
· If you have difficulty reading a message your child has written, ask your child to read it to you.
· Children will begin to use different combinations of letters to represent words as they become better and better at hearing individual sounds in words.
· As children become more comfortable with writing, they begin to use conventional or standard spelling patterns.
· One way to know a word very well is to be able to write it.
· Make writing at home fun by providing your child with paper, pencils, pens, markers, crayons and an excited and accepting audience – YOU!
Parent Involvement
Parent involvement adds to your child’s success. Nightly homework consists of:
· Listening to your child read the books he/she brings home daily.
· Supervising while your child puts together his/her cut up sentence.
· Returning books to school each day in the reading bag.
· Communicating with your child’s teachers if you have questions or concerns.
Reading to Your Child
· Reading to your child is one of the best ways you can help your child learn to read.
· Reading to your child enriches language development by giving them many opportunities to hear stories that they may not yet be able to read for themselves.
· Reading a story that has parts your child can read with you encourages a love and enthusiasm for reading.
· Read to your child every day if possible.
The Reading Recovery Lesson
Reading several familiar stories
· Helps the child to understand stories and encourages fluent, effortless reading.
· Encourages confidence and promotes independence while reading.
Reading a story that was read once the day before
· Allows the teacher to observe the child’s strengths as well as confusions in reading.
· Helps the teacher check on a child’s progress and plan instruction.
Letter Identification and Word Work
· Helps the child learn fast recognition of letters.
· Helps the child learn how to get to new words from known words.
· Helps the child build an understanding of the process of word construction that they can use while reading and writing.
Writing a sentence or short story
· Encourages the child to use sound and letter relationships to write words and to write known words quickly.
· Helps the child learn to read and write using his/her own natural language patterns.
· Helps the child learn capitalization, punctuation, and sequencing.
Reading a new book that is read independently the next day
· Encourages the child to use previously learned strategies while reading.
· Promotes independent problem solving.