The Reading Recovery Program Northeast Regional Site
NYU serves as the primary teacher-leader training site for the Reading Recovery ® Program in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Reading Recovery ® (RR) is an intervention program for first graders who exhibit early reading difficulties. Approximately 10,226 children have been served by the 1,242 teachers trained through the program, who now work in 686 schools. Reading Recovery is a supplementary program to good classroom instruction for children in the first grade who are having difficulty learning to read and write. Specially trained teachers provide individual instruction (a thirty minute lesson) daily to help the poorest readers make accelerated progress so that they reach the average reading level or above of their class within twenty weeks.
Descubriendo La Lectura (DLL) is the Spanish version of Reading Recovery ®. DLL works with the lowest performing first grade Spanish speaking students in reading and writing. The goal of this program is to enable these students to read and write within the average band of their bilingual classrooms. Because of the differences in the languages of these two programs, teachers receive specific training in order to provide DLL services to children.