Reading Recovery

The Banneker places a strong focus on overcoming educational problems that typically hold back minority youth. By implementing Reading Recovery as an early literacy program, we hope to ensure that our at-risk students will be provided with quality individual tutoring necessary to become fluent readers.

• Reading Recovery provides a safety net for tutoring those first grade students who are at risk of failing to learn to read and write.
  
• Reading Recovery is an early intervention program which supports the lowest achieving students in the first grade and assists them in developing the reading and writing capacities which will enable them to succeed in their early years.
  
• Reading Recovery reduces the number of children who score below average on standardized tests of achievement.
  
• Reading Recovery works with good first teaching in the classroom to insure that students will meet the expectations of the first grade and will be successful as they move beyond first grade.

As such, Reading Recovery is an excellent early intervention to reduce the need for long-term programs. In instances where referral for additional assessment and service is needed, Reading Recovery provides a base of information not otherwise available from which to develop appropriate ongoing individualized educational interventions. The design and delivery of the program is very specific. The Reading Recovery teacher's program with the child is designed to take the confusion out of reading and writing. The child's learning accelerates to the point where he/she can effectively participate in the regular classroom program at average class level, typically in twelve-twenty weeks.