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Here is the link to information about Reading Recovery - history, research - and to various important challenges to its research:Reading Recovery to return to Worland
A first-grade reading intervention program will be returning to Worland schools.
Reading Recovery, according to the website readingrecovery.org, “is a highly effective short-term intervention of one-to-one tutoring for low-achieving first graders. The intervention is most effective when it is available to all students who need it and is used as a supplement to good classroom teaching.”
Superintendent David Nicholas told the Washakie County School District No. 1 Board at their meeting Monday that he would like to bring back the program. “It existed 10 years ago and then it went away,” he said. “It’s the highest regarded early reading intervention program there is.”
The district has funds for training through Title IVA.
He said the program, geared toward first graders, has shown that students who are successful are able to stay off of IEPs (individual education plans).
Nicholas said the goal in bringing back the program is to move students from below basic or basic reading levels to proficient.
He said the district needs a “rock star teacher” to be trained in the program.
Worland Middle School Principal Ryan Clark noted that a Title 1 teacher approached the administration about bringing the program back.
Board member and former principal Joe Bishop said money was the biggest factor for the district dropping the program, as well as the number of kids that were being served. He said they had five teachers trained and each could only see four students in a day.
“It was very successful, we just couldn’t get as many kids as we needed,” Bishop said.
Nicholas said for the coming year the cost would be $5,000 for teacher books and supplies for class, four-day training in August, nine-hours of class per month and four site visits for teacher-in-training. There is also a fee for the data site and an affiliation fee with the University of Ohio.
Nicholas said, “Everything is reading. Everything is comprehension. Reading is the foundation for all subjects.”
He said if a program helps reach one student and prevents that student from later dropping out then it is worth it.
The hope with the early intervention is if a student is brought up to proficiency or above reading levels then the comprehension levels will be higher, making it easier on the student as the student goes through school.
He said this first year will be devoted to getting one teacher trained and then full deployment will be in the 2018-2019 school year.
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