Program Description

"A short-term intervention for first graders having extreme difficulty with early reading and writing."

Cost

Costs include teacher training costs, professional materials, children's books, data and evaluation fees, etc. Some costs found were: Initial purchase of non-consumable children's books is $2,500/year Data and evaluation support fees: Annual $350 fee and $45 per teacher data entry fee

Intended Population

• Intensified intervention

Grade

• Elementary School

Intended Group Size

• Individual

ELL/DLL

• Yes

Multisensory Applications

• Yes

Computer-Based Delivery

• Partial

Scripted

• Instructor Scripted

Comprehensive or Skill Specific

• Comprehensive

Placement Tests

• No

Advanced Placement

• No

Assessment to Monitor Skills Mastery

• No

Error Correction Built In

• Yes

Fidelity Measures Provided by Publisher

• Unspecified

Research Summary

The WWC report on the Reading Recovery program indicates that the program has positive effects on general reading achievement. Also, there are potentially positive effects on alphabetics, reading fluency, and comprehension for beginning readers (WWC, 2013). The NeMTSS review of the research evidence on the Reading Recovery program mirrors the conclusions from the WWC report. 

Study Citations

May, H., Sirinades, P., Gray, A., & Goldsworthy, H. (2016). Reading Recovery: An evaluation of the four-year i3 scale-up. University of Delaware Center for Research in Education & Social Policy.

Pinnell, G. S., DeFord, D. E., & Lyons, C. A. (1988). Educational Research Service. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED303790

Pinnell, G. S., Lyons, C. A., Deford, D. E., Bryk, A. S., & Seltzer, M. (1994). Comparing instructional models for the literacy education of high-risk first graders. Reading Research Quarterly, 29. doi: 10.2307/747736.

Schwartz, R. M. (2005). Literacy learning of at-risk first-grade students in the Reading Recovery early intervention. Journal of Educational Psychology, 97(2), 257-267. doi: 10.1037/0022-0663.97.2.257

What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) Report

• Potentially positive effects
• Positive effects

Evidence Base (ESSA)

• Strong

Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)

• Evidence-based practice

Additional Reviews

• https://www.wrightslaw.com/info/read.rr.ltr.experts.htm