Reading Recovery Facts and Figures
 

Reading Recovery begins with the lowest-achieving first graders — those who are having extreme difficulty with early reading and writing. 

Reading Recovery and Descubriendo la Lectura Student Results 1984-2010

*As soon as students can read within the average range of their class and demonstrate that they can continue to achieve, their lessons are discontinued, and new students begin individual lessons.

Over the past 25 years, 78% of students who completed the full 12- to 20-week series of lessons met grade-level expectations in reading and writing.

Descubriendo la Lectura (DLL) is the Spanish reconstruction of Reading Recovery used with children whose classroom literacy instruction is in Spanish.

Reading Recovery and Descubriendo la Lectura in the U.S. 2009-2010

In 2009-2010, 75% of students who completed the full 12- to 20-week series of lessons met grade-level expectations in reading and writing.


Other Students Taught by Reading Recovery Teachers
Reading Recovery teachers typically work a half-day in Reading Recovery and the other half-day they are assigned to other school roles, including special education teacher, staff developer, school administrator, ESL teacher, and others. In 2009-2010, Reading Recovery teachers served an average of 8 students in Reading Recovery and 39 students in their other assigned roles for a total average of 47 students per teacher. In all, Reading Recovery’s highly trained teachers reach more than 400,000 students each year.

Download Reports
Ongoing research and evaluation for Reading Recovery in the United States is carried out by the International Data Evaluation Center located at The Ohio State University. Download recent reports and publications from the IDEC website.

¹ Cunningham P.M. & Allington, S.R. (1994). Classrooms that work. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. 255.