The program is a highly effective, short term intervention program of one-to-one tutoring for first graders who require some extra support to learn to read and write. Reading Recovery is a supplement to good classroom teaching and AR Lord is one of the select schools under this Vancouver School Board Program.
"If your grade 1 child is identified as needing some extra support with learning to read and write, they may be taken into the Reading Recovery Program. Students receive a half hour one-to-one lesson each school day for 12 to 20 weeks with me, a specially trained Reading Recovery teacher. Every lesson consists of familiar reading, letter activities, writing a sentence to take home and reading a new book. Your child and I work hard to learn the complex skills of reading and writing and we have lots of fun too. Your child will bring home 3-4 books to read every day and to cut up sentences to put back together and read, with a special word that we are working on. I feel so lucky to do this work with children, we have the luxury of one on one time which is very rare in schools and we get to read great books and have lots of fun while we learn!"
Information for students and resources for families are posted in the downstairs hallway.
See Link: VSB Reading Recovery News and we hope that parents will continue to voice their support for special programs like this one.
