Reading Recovery in the News - July 2008
New programme shown to 'dramatically' improve children's
literacy
Pupils struggling with reading are
benefiting from a new scheme that sees them improving
their literacy with one-to-one support from
specially-trained teachers.
Under the Reading Recovery programme, not only are
children catching-up with their peers after a relatively
short amount of time, but they are outperforming the
national average for their age group within two years,
according to research.
Tailored lessons for half-an-hour a day for between 12
and 20 weeks are provided to six-year-olds who have
shown literacy problems.
Part of the government's Every Child a Reader programme,
the initiative has been hailed a great success.
New team at the elementary school Miller, Slade and Horton hired
Nantucket Independent - Nantucket, MA
by Margaret Carroll-Bergman
July 30, 2008
John Miller, principal of Nantucket Elementary School from 1985 to
1995, was appointed Monday as NES interim principal and will begin
his new job on August 1.
Nina Slade, a 22-year veteran of the school system, who worked as
an administrative intern in the superintendent's office last year,
was appointed this week interim assistant principal at the
elementary school.
Slade is a licensed reading specialist and a past recipient of
the Nantucket Golf Club's Excellence in Teaching award. She played a
leading role, along with NES teacher Helaina Jones, in starting a
Reading Recovery program on Nantucket. Reading Recovery is a highly
effective, short-term, early literacy intervention program that
provides intense individualized support for students in the first
grade. The goal of the program is to bring students' reading scores
above the average.
Mountain View approves Pre-K program grant
Susquehanna Independent - Montrose, PA
July 30, 2008
Mountain View school board on Monday July 28, approved a Pre-K
grant allowing a pilot program to begin in November.
The board also approved the submission of a Reading Recovery
Grant that would allow Mountain View to train a teacher leader, and
allow the school district to become a training site.
The school has been involved in the Reading Recovery program for 11
years, but has had to travel to Binghamton for training due to lack
of status as a training site.
The submission must be placed by August 4.
Award honors educator’s work with reading
Houma Couriter - Houma, LA
By Matthew Pleasant
July 27, 2008
HOUMA – Educators know teaching one child to read takes vigilant
effort.
But one longtime local educator has been honored for her efforts to
make sure that elementary-school students throughout Terrebonne
Parish are receiving the one-on-one attention it takes to learn
reading skills.
Carol Davis, federal programs supervisor for the Terrebonne
schools, recently received the Teacher Leader Award from the Reading
Recovery Council of North American.
The council is made up of educators well versed in Reading
Recovery, a literacy program for young students used by school
systems nationally.
Legislature's budget call for $13 Million in local aid
Reading Advocate - Concord, MA
July 18, 2008
Reading would receive $13 million in local aid, under the $28.233
billion Fiscal Year 2009 state budget passed the Massachusetts House
and Senate. Among the uses of these funds are 2.9 million for the
Reading Recovery Program. This valuable early literacy program which
improves the performance of children throughout the Commonwealth who
are at-risk of failing to read by the end of 1st grade.
New programme tackles literacy problems in south-east
Kilkenny Advertiser - Kilkenny, Ireland
July 17, 2008
Literacy problems among school leavers attempting to access
further education are being tackled at the roots in the south-east
with an initiative from the Department of Education.
The Kilkenny Education Centre’s Reading Recovery programme is
aimed at children aged six and seven and is an early intervention
programme designed to reduce literary problems.
MSA test scores are up in most subjects
So. Maryland News - Waldorf, MD
July 16, 2008
The Maryland State Department of Education released its Maryland
School Assessment scores for Charles County on Monday.
In a trend that has been tracked for the last five years,
Maryland schools have made consistent progress in improving their
scores.
Charles County School Superintendent James E. Richmond was
pleased with the steady progress the scores have demonstrated. He
referred to the reading improvement programs and the reading
recovery programs that have been initiated in the schools to improve
reading scores.
People in the News
Central Valley Business Times - Stockton, CA
July 11, 2008
Judith Neal, professor emerita of education at California State
University, Fresno, has been appointed president of the Reading
Recovery Council of North America, an 8,000-member international
association dedicated to helping first graders who have extreme
difficulty learning to read.
Ms. Neal is the former director of Fresno State’s Central
California Reading Recovery Project. She supervised teacher training
sites in five Western states and taught graduate-level courses for
Reading Recovery teacher leaders.
Ms. Neal is founding editor of “The Journal of Reading Recovery”
and served as its editor-in-chief from 2001 to 2006. She also edited
“The Running Record: A Review of Theory and Practice for Reading
Recovery Teachers” from 1997 to 2001.
Fresno professor emerita leads reading association
Fresno Bee - Fresno, CA
July 10, 2008
Judith Neal is the new president of the Reading Recovery Council
of North America.
Neal is professor emerita of education at California State
University, Fresno. The council is an 8,000-member international
association dedicated to helping first-graders who have difficulty
learning to read. Neal is founding editor of The Journal of Reading
Recovery and served as its editor-in-chief from 2001 to 2006.
Reading Scheme Goes to the Top of the Class
Leicester Mercury - Leicester, England
July 10, 2008
The number of children starting secondary school
who cannot read is set to fall dramatically thanks to high-intensive
teaching of six-year-olds. In Leicester, 500 pupils have now
benefited from one-on-one classes in the Reading Recovery project
which, according to teachers, has produced "miraculous" results.
Schools identified children who had the biggest difficulties reading
- typically, they could only read and write two or three words - and
they have shown massive improvements.
So far, 73 per cent of the children who on the scheme have reached
the level expected of all seven-year-olds when they take their SATs
tests, despite their very low starting points.
Oakes organizes program to help students improve reading skills
Fremont Tribune - Fremont, NE
By Don Cunningham
July 7, 2008
Lynette Oakes, Reading Recovery teacher leader for Fremont Public
Schools, sees the prospects of those who fall behind in their
reading development.
“Our reading intervention program actually has its origin in the
University of South Dakota. To address low reading scores, we
initiated Reading Recovery in 1999. Since then, we have trained one
teacher in each elementary school in the district. Our teachers
assess the basic word skills of our kindergarten class each May. If
we find a student who is struggling with reading, we intervene at
the beginning of first grade,” Oakes said.
Reading scheme success
Loughborough News - Loughborough, England
July 7, 2008
A reading scheme that is transforming the lives of children who
have been struggling to read, is celebrating more success this week.
The city council has trained a further ten primary school
teachers to provide specialist Reading Recovery teaching, as part of
its "Every Child a Reader" scheme.
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