Reading Recovery

Reading is a strategic process that takes place in a child’s mind. It coordinates many strategies and visual information. Meaning is not in the words on the page. The reader must construct meaning by making inferences and interpretations. How well a reader constructs meaning depends in part on the reader’s ability to think about (known as metacognition) and control the learning process. Reading researchers believe that information is stored in long term memory in organized knowledge structures. The basic nature of learning is linking new information to prior knowledge about the text. All though many students who are at-risk come to school lacking prior knowledge that is relevant to school achievement, teachers and schools do make a substantial difference by providing special programs such as Reading Recovery.
Today there is much concern that literacy levels are falling. Because there are extremely high numbers of seven year olds that are unable to read, it makes sense ...