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Reading Recovery Reading Recovery is a well researched early intervention reading and writing program designed by Dame Marie Clay to reduce reading failure for students in their second year at school. Individually administered observation tasks are used to identify students in need of supplementary support. Reading recovery provides daily, intensive, high quality instruction to students experiencing difficulty in Year 1. These lessons are individually tailored to provide explicit instruction for each student. The aim of the program is to accelerate student progress, to the average level of their grade as quickly as possible so students may obtain maximum benefit from classroom instruction. This program supplements the classroom literacy program. Lessons are 30 minutes a day and for an average of 12-20 weeks. They involve familiar reading of several past read texts, a running record taken on the text read the day before, letter work and word analysis, writing a story and reconstructing it and being orientated to a new text and reading it ready for the next day. Hornsby South is funded by the NSW Department of Education for four students a day to be on the program at any one time. A fully trained Reading Recovery teacher takes each student daily for the course of their program. Parent participation is encouraged by listening to their children read familiar texts at home and observation of lessons. More information regarding the
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