Reading Recovery is a short-term intervention approach designed for English-speaking children aged five or six, who are the lowest achieving in literacy after their first year of school.
The intervention involves intensive one-to-one lessons for 30 minutes a day with a teacher trained in the Reading Recovery method, for between 12 and 20 weeks.
The phrase "Reading Recovery" is a proprietary registered trademark held by the Marie Clay Trust in New Zealand,[2] with Ohio State University in the US and the Institute of Education in the UK.
[7] After Reading Recovery was removed from the curriculum in many Australian schools,[6] its utility has been questioned by researchers and policy makers in New Zealand as well.
[12][13] On April 23, 2022, the Center for Research in Education and Social Policy at the University of Delaware presented the results of a study of the long-term effects of Reading Recovery.