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Reading recovery

Reading recovery is an early literacy intervention program providing intensive individual help for children having difficulties in learning to read and write.

Through daily individual lessons children achieving at very low levels are helped to make rapid progress catching up to their classmates in a short period of time. The Reading Recovery program has a success rate of 95%.

The Program takes approximately 18 weeks, providing children who participate, with the opportunity to become independent readers and writers. Children in the Program use the same strategies that proficient literacy learners use enabling them to engage in existing classroom programs with continued success.

Teachers support the Program by undergoing intensive training that continues throughout the time they are involved in the teaching the children