Reading Recovery I: Recovery Teacher Training

Certification or licensure as a first grade, kindergarten or reading teacher. Willingness to make a three-year commitment to the Reading Recovery Program. Recommendations by the principal and another teacher as an effective teacher in the primary grades. The purpose of these courses is to prepare and assist the teacher in implementing a Reading Recovery intervention programs for first-grade children who are at-risk of failing to learn to read. Participants will learn to 1) systematically observe, record and reflect on students' reading and writing behavior over time; 2) apply Reading Recovery theory and procedures for effective one-to-one intervention; 3) assist first-grade teachers in creating supportive learning-to-read environments for Reading Recovery children; and 4) develop, in conjunction with teacher leaders and classmates, a theory of how at-risk children learn to read.