Reading Recovery
Product identity
- Publisher
- Reading Recovery Council of North America
- Program family
- Reading Recovery
Instructional fit
- Role explanation
- Intensive reading and writing intervention for grade 1.
- Subjects covered
- Supported grades
- Supported instructional roles
Materials and delivery
- Format description
- Teacher-delivered one-to-one instruction using print books, lesson records, assessment tools, and professional-learning resources.
- Included components
- Student selection and observation; daily one-to-one lessons; reading familiar and new texts; writing; letter and word work; progress monitoring; teacher training; implementation network.
- Languages and support
- English; implementation guidance addresses diverse first-grade learners.
- Format components
Links and notes
- Vendor product URL
- Visit publisher product page
- Curriculum notes
- Reading Recovery is an instructional intervention model and professional-learning network rather than a conventional boxed curriculum. SDLA lists it without rating or evaluating efficacy.
Availability
- Product availability
- Available
- Last checked
- September 29, 2026
A short-term grade 1 literacy intervention model providing daily one-to-one lessons from a specially trained teacher for students with the greatest reading and writing needs.
Reading Recovery supplements classroom instruction with individualized daily lessons for selected first-grade students. Teachers use observation, leveled texts, reading, writing, word work, and continuous decision making to accelerate progress during a time-limited intervention supported by specialized professional learning and a regional training network.