Reading Recovery in the News - September 2008
New programme shown to 'dramatically' improve children's
literacy
Pupils struggling with reading are
benefiting from a new scheme that sees them improving
their literacy with one-to-one support from
specially-trained teachers.
Under the Reading Recovery programme, not only are
children catching-up with their peers after a relatively
short amount of time, but they are outperforming the
national average for their age group within two years,
according to research.
Tailored lessons for half-an-hour a day for between 12
and 20 weeks are provided to six-year-olds who have
shown literacy problems.
Part of the government's Every Child a Reader programme,
the initiative has been hailed a great success.
Help for pupils struggling with reading
Hull Daily Mail - Hull, England, UK
September 30, 2008
Children in Hull who struggle at reading are to be given intensive
one-to-one tuition as part of a multi-million pound Government
scheme.
Read Recovery is an intensive catch-up programme that focuses on the
bottom five per cent of pupils at key stage one and will give
six-year-olds specialist support from trained teachers.
The groundbreaking scheme aims to raise standards for those children
who are failing to make the grade in national tests.
District notes: St. Oliver's NS parents hold annual meeting
Dundalk Argus - Dublin, Ireland
September 25, 2008
The AGM of the St Oliver Plunketts Parents Council was held last
Wednesday night in the school.
There were three very interesting guests speakers including Joan
Young the deputy Principal of the school who outlined the role of
the learning support team in the school.
She spoke about the Reading Recovery programme which has been in
operation in the school for the last 6 years and is very successful.
Leading Article: A welcome return to one-on-one
The Independent - London, England, UK
September 4, 2008
The Government announced this week that – from the start of the new
term – the 5 per cent of youngsters struggling hardest would get
special one-to-one help from their teachers in reading. We should
welcome the fact that 30,000 of the lowest achievers who, in the
past, would have been switched off from secondary schooling are
being given a much better chance of surviving in the classroom.
Research shows that children taught one-to-one – a method that has
been piloted in several schools and was widespread in the Nineties
under the guise of the Reading Recovery project – can improve from
being in the bottom 5 per cent to becoming an above-average reader
in a relatively short space of time.
Nurturing the genius in your child
Royal Gazette - Hamilton, Bermuda
September 3, 2008
If you're looking for someone to bring out the genius in your
child, look in the mirror.
That's the advice from Dr. Floretta (Dr. Flo) Thornton-Reid, an
American education expert who will be lecturing in Bermuda this
week.
Dr. Thornton-Reid is the assistant professor and executive
director for the Reading Recovery and Literacy Collaborative at
Georgia State University. She is also on loan to Clemson University
in South Carolina.
She is proud that she is the only African American Reading
Recovery trainer in the world, but also concerned.
"Reading Recovery has been in the world for about thirty years,"
she said. "I am the third person of African American descent to be
trained and the only trainer that is African American in the world.
The other two people went on to do different things.
"I'd like to see more folks become trainers. Darnell Wynn in
Bermuda is a Reading Recovery teacher leader and works in the school
system. She does manage the implementation of Reading Recovery on
the Island. Then she is affiliated with our regional organisation."
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