Reading Recovery

Good literacy skills-the ability to read, write and communicate confidently-are the building blocks to all learning. The most recent data indicates that around four in ten disadvantaged 11-year- olds-75,000 children did not meet expected reading standards at Key Stage 2. Frequently they will go on to have trouble in secondary school as well as leaving formal education without the qualifications they will need for further study or secure a job. (Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) Improving Literacy in Key Stage 1 2020)

Research shows that Reading Recovery, an intensive teacher-led reading Programme achieves good results that are swift and long lasting. The Borough has been a long-term advocate and user of Reading Recovery and Grafton Primary School is proud to be the host to a Reading Recovery Centre with its own Reading Recovery Teacher Leader as well as a Reading Recovery Teacher.

Grafton Primary School is one of the Borough’s Literacy Focus Schools and is committed to all children reading well by age 11 with the emphasis on early intervention. Reading Recovery is at the core of the school’s reading interventions and the Reading Recovery Team are integral to the school’s recovery programme in the years following the learning disruption caused by Covid 19.

A bit more about Reading Recovery

Reading Recovery is a literacy Programme designed for the lowest achieving children in Year 1 that enables them to reach age expected levels within 20 weeks.

It involves a short series of daily one-to-one lessons for 30 minutes with a specially trained teacher. This specially trained teacher undergoes a yearlong professional development programme with a Teacher Leader (Louise Harding).

Reading Recovery is different for every child, starting from what the child knows and what he/she needs to learn next. The focus of each lesson is to comprehend messages in reading and construct messages in writing, learning how to use letter and word detail fluently, flexible phonics without losing focus on meaning and comprehension.

Research shows that Reading Recovery achieves good results that are swift and long lasting. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/reading-recovery-europe/reading-recovery/research

Reading Recovery is recognised as an example of good practice in literacy education by

Grafton Reading Recovery Centre

Grafton Reading Recovery Centre works in close partnership with the Borough and BDSIP training teachers and TAs. This year there will be some more training for TAs and a research project undertaken with the support of The Laurel Trust. Watch this space…

Reading Recovery Teacher Leader Louise Harding is an accredited Teacher Leader with the Institute of Education and carries out a variety of training courses for the School, Borough and BDSIP at Grafton Reading Recovery Centre.

Reading Recovery Teacher Ola Salami has been working as a Reading Recovery Teacher and class teacher in Grafton Primary School since 2013.