Mrs. Tibbe, Reading Recovery

Some children find it hard to read and write for many different reasons. The Reading Recovery Program, by giving these students assistance while they are still very young, helps them become successful readers and writers within a short period of time.

Reading Recovery is an individualized program where the student and the Reading Recovery teacher work together for half an hour every day, providing extra support to the normal classroom literacy program. The Reading Recovery teacher helps the student read many books and write stories each day.The student will get one-to-one teaching and the lessons will start with his strengths and proceed according to what he is able to learn about reading and writing. The teacher will follow the lead of the child and help him with his needs. In this way, the student catches up with classmates, and usually extra support is no longer needed.

Reading Recovery was developed in New Zealand and is now operating in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and every state in the United States. It has proven to be a very successful way of working with young students.

Reading Recovery--"Our vision is that children will be proficient readers and writers by the end of first grade."