Reading recovery program for 1st grade

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Anonymous wrote:reading resource teacher here... Reading recovery is a great program! consider yourself lucky that your school has it! First grade literacy skills are the foundation for reading success and the intense nature of reading recovery can make the difference for some children. reading recovery teachers are highly trained. You have to have intensive professional development and training Beyond being a reading specialist.

If you want to learn more about guided reading, Jan Richardson is considered an expert in the field.

The research on Reading Recovery is inconsistent but it does involve best practices for literacy instruction and can be very successful with some children who show signs of being at risk for reading difficulties.

Is Reading Recovery multi-sensory?

Yes. Each lesson involves activities that are multi-sensory. I am really passionate about literacy so I have to applaud OP's school for being so on the ball. The fact that here we are in week 2 and you are already receiving intervention is incredible. Many schools don't even get kids identified as at risk until late October. I also tutor on the side and the families that I work with in private schools would kill for this level of intervention instead of having to pay me $ 40-50 an hour!

Please don't get flash cards or workbooks! Literacy instruction can not be mastered in a vaccuum. That is to say, phonics and phonemic awareness instruction should be embedded in active reading and writing activities not drill and kill style.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Reading Recovery is not an effective program.
http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/read.rr.research.farrall.htm
If you have a choice don't let the school put her in this program. Buy a phonics based program and read with her for 15 minutes every day.
Some examples are
Phonics Pathways book
Hooked on Phonics
Dancing Bears Reading
Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading
Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy a Lessons
All About Reading

These programs are based on phonics not using picture clues, memorizing predictable stories, or using beginning sounds to guess the word. Good readers can rapidly and effortlessly decode.

There's more to reading than decoding. However, the school will be thrilled if a parent does all of the remediation at home so that they can focus on another struggling reader.

Decoding is the first step to reading comprehension.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here: we are going to talk to the teacher tomorrow. Still quite surprised with the evaluation. We read today and she could read a level 1 book by herself and was able to "tell" the story. She has a great vocabulary. Not sure what happened in the test in the first week of school.

Ask for a revaluation if you believe the score is too low. Many teachers are not adept at actually scoring the tests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:reading resource teacher here... Reading recovery is a great program! consider yourself lucky that your school has it! First grade literacy skills are the foundation for reading success and the intense nature of reading recovery can make the difference for some children. reading recovery teachers are highly trained. You have to have intensive professional development and training Beyond being a reading specialist.

If you want to learn more about guided reading, Jan Richardson is considered an expert in the field.

The research on Reading Recovery is inconsistent but it does involve best practices for literacy instruction and can be very successful with some children who show signs of being at risk for reading difficulties.

ACPS uses Reading Recovery. They have some of the worst SOL scores for Reading in the area. The effects of the program seem to be very limited. They help for a very short time but do nothing to give kids a long term basis for learning to read.

[Anonymous]

Phonics-based reading is the best.

"Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons" is a great book. We used it with both of our children and our 6th grader tested at PHS (post-high school) reading level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:reading resource teacher here... Reading recovery is a great program! consider yourself lucky that your school has it! First grade literacy skills are the foundation for reading success and the intense nature of reading recovery can make the difference for some children. reading recovery teachers are highly trained. You have to have intensive professional development and training Beyond being a reading specialist.

If you want to learn more about guided reading, Jan Richardson is considered an expert in the field.

The research on Reading Recovery is inconsistent but it does involve best practices for literacy instruction and can be very successful with some children who show signs of being at risk for reading difficulties.

Is Reading Recovery multi-sensory?

Yes. Each lesson involves activities that are multi-sensory. I am really passionate about literacy so I have to applaud OP's school for being so on the ball. The fact that here we are in week 2 and you are already receiving intervention is incredible. Many schools don't even get kids identified as at risk until late October. I also tutor on the side and the families that I work with in private schools would kill for this level of intervention instead of having to pay me $ 40-50 an hour!

Please don't get flash cards or workbooks! Literacy instruction can not be mastered in a vaccuum. That is to say, phonics and phonemic awareness instruction should be embedded in active reading and writing activities not drill and kill style.

How is it different from established proven programs like Wilson or Barton?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Phonics-based reading is the best.

"Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons" is a great book. We used it with both of our children and our 6th grader tested at PHS (post-high school) reading level.

phonics is one piece- there is also decoding, comprehension, RAN and increasing sight words

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here: we are going to talk to the teacher tomorrow. Still quite surprised with the evaluation. We read today and she could read a level 1 book by herself and was able to "tell" the story. She has a great vocabulary. Not sure what happened in the test in the first week of school.

DS and his 1st grade peer group (at least the ones I know well) read Level 2 at a minimum. Level 1 books are extremely basic.

I agree. Level 1 is a K reading level. Sounds like she's a little behind OP but I don't think it's anything that can't be easily fixed! As her teacher for a tutor recommendation - at our school they usually recommend another teacher at the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:reading resource teacher here... Reading recovery is a great program! consider yourself lucky that your school has it! First grade literacy skills are the foundation for reading success and the intense nature of reading recovery can make the difference for some children. reading recovery teachers are highly trained. You have to have intensive professional development and training Beyond being a reading specialist.

If you want to learn more about guided reading, Jan Richardson is considered an expert in the field.

The research on Reading Recovery is inconsistent but it does involve best practices for literacy instruction and can be very successful with some children who show signs of being at risk for reading difficulties.

ACPS uses Reading Recovery. They have some of the worst SOL scores for Reading in the area. The effects of the program seem to be very limited. They help for a very short time but do nothing to give kids a long term basis for learning to read.

There are a lot of other factors that contribute to low SOL Scores. I don't know if I am reading too much into your comment, but I don't think one intervention model can be blamed for poor performance by a school or school district. Reading Recovery and other literacy intervention models aren't magic. They all have positives and negatives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:reading resource teacher here... Reading recovery is a great program! consider yourself lucky that your school has it! First grade literacy skills are the foundation for reading success and the intense nature of reading recovery can make the difference for some children. reading recovery teachers are highly trained. You have to have intensive professional development and training Beyond being a reading specialist.

If you want to learn more about guided reading, Jan Richardson is considered an expert in the field.

The research on Reading Recovery is inconsistent but it does involve best practices for literacy instruction and can be very successful with some children who show signs of being at risk for reading difficulties.

The bolded is key here OP.

Depending on the need your child has in reading, Reading Recovery could be more harmful than helpful. It depends on the area of deficit. Reading Recovery is not best practice for all types of reading disorders or issues.

It is, however, the main program used in the schools so they will of course say it's the best and that it will be helpful to children with reading problems.

I would ask the teacher where the main deficits were in the DRA testing. Was it comprehension, decoding, a combination?

Also, I would get an outside evaluation for dyslexia. If it's dyslexia, Reading Recovery would be worse for your child.

If it's not then I say give Reading Recovery a shot. Your child might just need to be brought up to speed with the rest of the class and not have any reading disorders. If that's the case, Reading Recovery is a great option since they'll get more small group or one on one instruction.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here: we are going to talk to the teacher tomorrow. Still quite surprised with the evaluation. We read today and she could read a level 1 book by herself and was able to "tell" the story. She has a great vocabulary. Not sure what happened in the test in the first week of school.

DS and his 1st grade peer group (at least the ones I know well) read Level 2 at a minimum. Level 1 books are extremely basic.

I agree. Level 1 is a K reading level. Sounds like she's a little behind OP but I don't think it's anything that can't be easily fixed! As her teacher for a tutor recommendation - at our school they usually recommend another teacher at the school.

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How is Level 1 a K reading level? Level 1 is level 1 because it's a first grade level. Children just learning to read in K cannot easily get to level 2 by the end of the year. No way.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here: we are going to talk to the teacher tomorrow. Still quite surprised with the evaluation. We read today and she could read a level 1 book by herself and was able to "tell" the story. She has a great vocabulary. Not sure what happened in the test in the first week of school.

DS and his 1st grade peer group (at least the ones I know well) read Level 2 at a minimum. Level 1 books are extremely basic.

I agree. Level 1 is a K reading level. Sounds like she's a little behind OP but I don't think it's anything that can't be easily fixed! As her teacher for a tutor recommendation - at our school they usually recommend another teacher at the school.

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How is Level 1 a K reading level? Level 1 is level 1 because it's a first grade level. Children just learning to read in K cannot easily get to level 2 by the end of the year. No way.

My kid did. She read "OINK" to her kindergarten class. The teacher couldn't believe she was able to read it herself.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here: we are going to talk to the teacher tomorrow. Still quite surprised with the evaluation. We read today and she could read a level 1 book by herself and was able to "tell" the story. She has a great vocabulary. Not sure what happened in the test in the first week of school.

DS and his 1st grade peer group (at least the ones I know well) read Level 2 at a minimum. Level 1 books are extremely basic.

I agree. Level 1 is a K reading level. Sounds like she's a little behind OP but I don't think it's anything that can't be easily fixed! As her teacher for a tutor recommendation - at our school they usually recommend another teacher at the school.

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How is Level 1 a K reading level? Level 1 is level 1 because it's a first grade level. Children just learning to read in K cannot easily get to level 2 by the end of the year. No way.

My kid did. She read "OINK" to her kindergarten class. The teacher couldn't believe she was able to read it herself.

That is not what level 1 means. It means beginner. My K girl could not read at the beginning and was definitely reading level 2 by the end. And she was neither advanced or unusual.

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I think there is some confusion about DRA levels and book levels you find at the library. For first grade, the benchmark for the beginning of the year is a Level 4 DRA. The level 1-4 that you see on the "I can Read" books is not the same.

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OP what school is this? Also how do they know from only one week of school? Dont reading "lags" get identified in K?