Purposes of the Reading
Recovery Lesson Components
I. Rereading of Familiar Text
- promotes fluency which aids
in comprehension
- provides practice in bringing
reading behaviors together (orchestration)
- encourages confidence and
promotes independence
- allows attention to features
of print or story not previously attended to
II. Running Record of New Book from Previous Lesson
- gives child opportunity to
organize and control his own reading behavior independently
- allows teacher to observe
child's strategies and check for any processing problems
- following reading, teacher
has opportunity to reinforce learning and to prompt for new learning on
1-2 points
- shows accuracy and
self-correction rate
- helps teacher gauge child's
progress
- helps teacher plan
instruction
III. Letter Identification/Making and Breaking
- establishes some letters to
begin to work with
- learning about print and how
words work
- learning how to get to new
words from known words
- understanding the process of
word construction
IV. Sentence Writing/Cut-up Story
- emphasizes the relationship
between reading and writing
- helps child build sound/letter
relationships; helps to sort out letter/word confusions
- helps child learn to read
using own natural language and experiences
- promotes word analysis and
fluency practice
- reinforces concepts of:
directionality, sequencing, one to one match, punctuation, monitoring
behaviors
- assists in breaking oral
language into segments
V. Orientation to New Text and First Reading
- supports the child so that
there is a minimum of new things to learn
- encourages use of reading
strategies on novel text... an opportunity to problem solve...to do
reading work
- promotes independence
- allows teacher to reinforce,
shape up and improve processing strategies