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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.

[b]The research on Reading Recovery is inconsistent[/b] 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.
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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.

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I agree with this poster.  My child was identified as having dyslexia between kindergarten and 1st grade.  For her, a program like Reading Recovery would have made things worse.  So it is really, really important to understand the nature of the difficulties your child is having.

It does seem like a good sign this sort of program is being offered, hopefully the school will be as supportive of a request for more detailed assessment for dyslexia.  We did that privately because it was faster/ easier than fighting the school.  And we felt that time was of the essence in intervening to remediate.

But it is equally true that many kids just aren't ready to learn to read at 5.  
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