"Reading Recovery® is a short term intervention for children who have the lowest achievement in literacy in the first grade.  Children meet individually with a specially trained teacher for 30 minutes each day for an average of 12-20 weeks.  The goal is for children to develop effective reading and writing strategies in order to work within an average range of classroom performance." (NDEC Reading Recovery® Site Report)

Referrals for the program are obtained from the classroom teachers and are then given a series of assessments called the "Observation Survey."  This includes letter identification, word identification, concepts about print (book and print awareness), writing vocabulary, hearing sounds in words, and reading level.

 Anderson Creek Primary School currently has five Reading Recovery® teachers.  Each teacher works with four students daily and co-teaches in kindergarten, first grade, and second grade classrooms the remainder of the day.  During co-teaching, Reading Recovery® teachers work with small groups on reading and writing.

Click on any of the following lesson components to view a description.

1) Rereading Familiar Books

2) Taking a Running Record

3) Letter Identification/Word Work

4) Writing a Story

5) Cut-Up Sentence

6) New Book Introduced and Attempted  

  Reading Recovery® students have homework every night.  Parent/Guardian participation and support is necessary for students to succeed at an accelerated rate.  Click on each of the following links to read about what your child is expected to practice each night.

1) Familiar Reading

2) Cut-Up Sentence

Click on the name of your child's teacher to send an email message.

Mrs. Hobson

Mrs. Brafford

Mrs. Lasater

Mrs. McPherson 

Mrs. Brooks

Click on any of the following to see some prompts and visuals that may help your child when he/she gets to a "tricky part" while reading. 

At the "tricky part," you should...

Blends/Digraphs Chart

Alphabet Chart