Reading Recovery Training Center

Clemson University is the Reading Recovery training site for South Carolina. Reading Recovery is a short-term reading intervention for first graders with the lowest reading achievement and is used in 7,500 schools in the U.S. In Reading Recovery, students work one-to-one with a specially trained teacher for 30 minutes each day. For students who complete the full series of lessons, 75% learn to read at grade level within 12-20 weeks and then continue their progress with good classroom teaching. In the 2005-2006 school year, the averageReading Recovery teacher taught 8.1 Reading Recovery students and 41.4 students outside Reading Recovery.

Unlike commercial programs, Reading Recovery is a not-for-profit partnership of schools and universities. Since its introduction in the U.S. in 1984, Reading Recovery has served more than 1.6 million children, making it one of the nation's oldest scientifically based reading interventions. More than 15% of the nation's elementary schools with first grades now use Reading Recovery as their safety net intervention for children who might otherwise not learn to read.

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404-C Tillman Hall
Box 340708
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634-0708
(864) 656-6149