Reading Recovery is a school based intervention designed to reduce literacy problems within an education system.

It is an early intervention, giving children who have particular difficulties in reading and writing in their first year at primary school a period of intensive, individual help.

The programme improves the reading and writing skills of the lowest achieving children in the age band (around six years).  It also helps them to develop more effective literacy strategies so that they will be able to continue to work at the average level of their classmates and to progress satisfactorily in their own schools’ class programme.

A child’s Reading Recovery programme is finished when he or she is judged to be able to cope well with appropriate reading and writing tasks; to work successfully with the average group in the class; and to have the strategies needed to continue to learn without special help.  With a fully trained Reading Recovery teacher, this should be within 12-20 weeks.  As soon as one child leaves the programme another enters and this rolling programme continues throughout the year.

SUMMER COURSES - Lift off to Literacy for Reading Recovery Schools

These courses are for participating Reading Recovery schools and will take place in Holy Rosary Primary School, Ballycragh, Tallaght, Dublin 24 and the Dublin West Education Centre, Tallaght, Dublin 24 from 2 - 6 July 2012.

To download an application form please click here