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May, Henry; Gray, Abigail; Gillespie, Jessica N.; Sirinides, Philip; Sam, Cecile; Goldsworthy, Heather; Armijo, Michael; Tognatta, Namrata – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2013
Reading Recovery (RR) is a short-term early intervention designed to help the lowest-achieving readers in first grade reach average levels of classroom performance in literacy. Students identified to receive Reading Recovery meet individually with a specially trained Reading Recovery (RR) teacher every school day for 30-minute lessons over a…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Early Intervention, Reading Achievement, Reading Difficulties
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Woods, Annette; Henderson, Robyn – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2008
Current policy, media and curriculum initiatives across western nations are drawing literacy and literacy pedagogy toward enticingly simplistic understandings of literacy as commodity. Increasingly they focus on "fixing" perceived literacy problems by assuming the primacy of early years literacy and "top-up" intervention…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Reading Failure, Literacy, Literacy Education
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D'Angiulli, Amedeo; Siegel, Linda S.; Hertzman, Clyde – Educational Psychology, 2004
This longitudinal study examined the relationship between schooling, literacy development, and socioeconomic context, as reflected by a composite measure of socioeconomic status (SES). Reading, spelling, and phonological abilities were assessed from kindergarten to grade three in Canadian children in a school district with intensive literacy…
Descriptors: School Activities, Kindergarten, Reading Failure, Literacy
Charlesworth, Ann; Charlesworth, Robert; Raban, Bridie; Rickards, Field – Literacy Teaching and Learning, 2006
This study quantitatively analyzed the structure of Reading Recovery lessons for children with hearing loss by examining and comparing the supportive interactions of three Reading Recovery teachers of 12 children with hearing loss and three Reading Recovery teachers of 12 hearing children. All of the children were in the second year of primary…
Descriptors: Reading Failure, Hearing Impairments, Literacy, Literacy Education