This newsletter describes the Reading Recovery program, developed in New Zealand to help low-achieving first-grade students "recover" 90 percent of average first-grade reading and writing skills after 12 to 18 weeks of intensive instruction. It is currently being implemented by school districts in the United States as well--statewide in Ohio and in school districts in Arizona, Texas, and South Carolina. Based on extensive research into the way good students learn to read effectively, the Reading Recovery program begins with a diagnostic test of first-graders' basic reading skills. Students at the bottom 20 percent of the class are then assigned individually, four per teacher, for daily half-hour, one-on-one Reading Recovery lessons that blend traditional reading instruction with modern whole language techniques. A two-part training program first certifies teacher-leaders at Ohio State University and then assigns them as teacher-trainers to local schools with a Reading Recovery program. Selected teachers begin with a one-week summer workshop on how to give and interpret the Reading Recovery Diagnostic Survey. Supervised by a leader, these teachers learn while working with at-risk students. Funding alternatives and addresses for more information are included with the newsletter. (TE)