A Reading Recovery Lesson
Every Reading Recovery lesson is different for every child because each lesson includes choices made by the child during the lesson and focuses on that child's strengths and weaknesses as revealed previously and during that particular lesson.  However, a typical Reading Recovery lesson has the following basic format:

  1. Familiar Rereading

The child selects and reads 2-3 little books (or a portion of a very long book) which s/he has read previously.  The teacher centers instruction around a few of the strengths and weaknesses exhibited, primarily those which pertain to that lesson’s focus of instruction (as determined by an analysis of the previous lesson).

 

  1. Running Record

The child reads the book introduced the previous day without intervention except for tolds, which are given if a child stalls or after several failed attempts to problem solve the word.  The teacher takes a running record of the child’s reading.  After the running record is completed the teacher makes a few teaching points.

 

  1. Letter Identification/Make and Break

This portion is to teach and expand letter knowledge (if needed).  It is also a time to teach children how words work through make and break with magnetic letter work.

 

  1. Writing

The child dictates and writes a short story (often a single sentence) with teacher assistance as required.  S/he then reassembles a cut-up version of that story.  Instruction focuses on the development of strategies for writing unknown words and fluent writing of high frequency words.

 

  1. New Book

A new book, selected to accelerate learning on the basis of an analysis of the previous lesson, is introduced by the teacher and then attempted by the child.

 

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