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Effective Conferencing Through Reading Recovery. How to Use Reading Recovery Strategies to Enhance Your Classroom Conferences By: Crystal Bryant. “Highlight My Strengths and My Weakness will Disappear” - Unknown. What Is Reading Recovery?. 16-20 Week Program Individual
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Effective Conferencing Through Reading Recovery How to Use Reading Recovery Strategies to Enhance Your Classroom Conferences By: Crystal Bryant
“Highlight My Strengths and My Weakness will Disappear”- Unknown
What Is Reading Recovery? • 16-20 Week Program • Individual • Bottom 20% of First Grade Students • Cost Effectiveness
Observation Survey Roaming Around the Known Familiar Reading Running Record Word Work Writing New Book Introduction It’s all about knowing where the student is and using that knowledge to meet the child where he or she is to provide a scaffold that will self destruct as the student takes on more independence. Components of Reading Recovery
Why Familiar Reading? • Builds fluency • Builds comprehension • Builds confidence • Guides instruction • Mentor Text
What’s So Important About a Running Record? • Guides Instruction • MSV • Patterns • Assess Strategies • Two Praise Points/Two Teaching Points • Wait time
Value Approximations • “Learners must be free to approximate the desired model – ‘mistakes’ are essential for learning to occur.” Brian Cambourne
Word work • Contrary to popular belief, Reading Recovery teachers do not think that phonics is a dirty word • Expand a meager knowledge of words • look, took, book
Word Work • “Usually the gain is not that the child gets a particular word right but that he has strengthened the range of ways of solving new words he will use in the future.” Marie Clay
Writing • “Children have to know that reading and writing can contribute to each other during early literacy.” Marie Clay
Writing • It’s all about conversation and student choice. • Expand story to include focus words • Practice page • Sound/letter boxes • Cut up story
Writing • “After the child has become an eager writer the teacher may suggest how a sentence might have some more ideas, or be changed in structure, just a little. If the child cannot go with your suggestions, back off. He is the composer, and the goal is for him to want to write tomorrow.” Marie Clay
New Book Introduction • “There no quick ways to extend language but the best available opportunity for the Reading Recovery teacher lies in the conversations she has with the child in and around his lessons. The authors of the books she chooses for the child provide other opportunities for extending language.” Marie Clay
New Book Introduction • Book choice • Picture walk • Concept words • Predict and locate words • Oral language