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"My child is now reading at grade level. In addition, his writing has improved and self confidence is high!"
"She can actually sit down and read instructions which she couldn't do before."
"He prefers to buy a book than a toy/"
Comments from parents whose children participated in Reading Recovery
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 Spotlight on Reading Recovery - Live Oak District Training Site
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Developed by New Zealand educator Dr. Marie M. Clay, Reading Recovery is a short-term intervention for children who have the lowest achievement in literacy learning in the first grade.
The vision for this program is that all children will be proficient readers and writers by the end of the first grade, leaving no child behind.
How Does This Program Work?
Children meet individually with a specially trained teacher for 30 minutes each day for an average of 12-20 weeks. The goal is for children to develop effective reading and writing strategies in order to work within an average range of classroom performance.
The key to the success of Reading Recovery is the training model with 2 levels of professional staffing that provide stable training structures:
- a trained Teacher / Leader at the site level who trains and supports teachers
- school-based teachers who work with the hardest to train children
 Initial teacher training is for one academic year. As teachers are trained they simultaneously begin to work with the children. Extensive use is made of a one-way glass screen for observing and talking about lessons with children ("Behind the Glass"). Teachers become sensitive observers of students reading and writing behaviors and develop skill in making moment-by-moment analyses that inform teaching decisions.
Following the initial year of training, teachers continue to participate in ongoing professional development sessions called 'continuing contact'. These sessions provide collaborative opportunities for teachers to review and improve their practices based on feedback from other teachers and review of new knowledge in the field.
What Does Our Grant Provide?
The first two years of our grant paid for the training of eight additional teachers. Currently the grant pays for 'continuing contact' - sustaining teachers who have been through the program.
How Successful is the Program?
There are Reading Recovery teachers now in several school districts: Live Oak, Happy Valley, Santa Cruz City, Loma Prieta, San Lorenzo Valley, Pajaro Valley.
The program has now taught over 2150 students which calculates to reaching 108 classrooms full of students who were at risk of reading failure. Here is a snapshot from 2007-2008:
- 90% of the children who went through one cycle of intervention started the year Below or Well Below Average in reading performance
- By the end of 1st grade 59% of these children were Average in their reading performance with an additional 32% being Above or Well Above Average.
But there is more to the program than this. Beyond the one-to-one effect are the thousands and thousands of students taught in the regular classrooms, year after year, by these highly trained classroom teachers. This "Spillover Effect" is a another significant outcome of Reading Recovery.
Our grant is making a real difference in the lives of thse 1st graders and their families.
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Look for your invitation to the MAY Members Event in the mail. We will email SAVE the DATE notifications shortly.
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