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.
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.
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.
Anonymous wrote:Permanent disqualification from AAP, mandatory IEP and probably meds for ADHD.
Kidding, kidding. In my experience, teachers tend to score low and the start of the year so you will be sooooo wowed by all the progress your child makes by the end of the year. Also, if she knows how to read it will come back quickly and she'll be moved to the appropriate group.
It could be that she's struggling with non-reading parts of the evaluation. I think they do some verbal questions to test comprehension. It could be a reflection of her comprehension, or shyness, discomfort with teacher, or even her memory.