Good Article Review On Reading Recovery Is Just A Complement

Brief Summary

In the journal article of Jesson and Limbrick entitled “Can gains from early literacy interventions be sustained: The case of Reading Recovery” scrutinized whether or not the ability gained from a short term reading intervention can be sustained. Among the many early literacy interventions, they took the case of Reading Recovery. In the Reading Recovery, the writers explained that this is an intervention done among the students lagging behind other students in terms of reading ability during their first year in a literacy program. It is conducted through a 30-minute one-on-one tutoring activities daily in the span of 12 to 15 weeks. If the students are deemed recovered, they are disconnected from the program. Jesson and Limbrick conducted a study in New Zealand and found out that many of those who availed of the short term intervention retained their gains even after two years. Those who did not retained the ability they concluded must have other reasons like absenteeism. The question for the sustainability of the gains from the interventions is answered in the recommendation that the intervention should be integrated in school and at home.

“How”

As a kindergarten teacher, I long for boosting my students’ reading capacity. Learning about the reading recovery pushed me to make a detailed plan for my incoming week’s lesson plan. I want to know each of my students well in order to address their individual difficulties in reading. I will make a detailed profile for each of the students containing the words they can recognize and spell correctly. It is in this profile where every meeting, I will update any reading development or regression. It is in this way that I will identify who among my students are in dire need of reading recovery. For me, this intervention will only be complementary especially to students whom I recognize to have significantly lagged. It is just a complementary because as stated in the aforementioned article, the gains from the intervention are only short term. It is still my regular teaching approaches that will have a sustained impact to my students.