Reading Recovery
By Mischel Miller
Southwest Plains Regional Service Center employs Mischel D. Miller as a Reading Recovery Teacher Leader and she serves the following districts with Reading Recovery services: Sublette, Satanta, Meade, Hugoton, Ingalls, Protection, Jetmore, Montezuma, Cimarron and Elkhart. These districts each have at least one, if not two, Reading Recovery teachers who serve the early literacy needs of children in first grade. Below you will find more detailed information about Reading Recovery and how it was developed. If you have further questions, please contact Mischel.
Mischel D. Miller
620-353-8111
620-675-8839
What is Reading
Recovery?
Reading Recovery is a highly effective short-term intervention of
one-on-one lessons for low-achieving first graders. The
intervention is most effective when it is available to all students
who need it and is used as a supplement to good classroom teaching.
In Reading Recovery, individual students receive a half-hour lesson
each school day for 12 to 20 weeks with a specially trained Reading
Recovery teacher. As soon as students reach grade-level literacy
expectations and demonstrate that they can continue to learn
through their own efforts, their lessons are discontinued, and new
students begin individual instruction.
How
was Reading Recovery developed?
Reading Recovery was developed by New Zealand educator and
researcher Dr. Marie M. Clay. Dr. Clay conducted observational
research in the mid-1960s that enabled her to design ways to detect
children’s early reading difficulties. In the mid-1970s, she
developed Reading Recovery procedures with teachers and tested the
program in New Zealand. Since its success in New Zealand, Reading
Recovery has spread to Australia, the United States, Canada and
Great Britain. More than 1.6 million first graders have been served
in the United States since Reading Recovery was introduced in
1984.
