Reading Recovery- how effective?

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DS is in Y3 and we just got a call to say an assessment has been done and he is way behind in literacy and quite behind in numeracy. His reading level was 4.11 (he is aged 7.10) and he has now been given an IEP and referred to Reading Recovery three times a week for 30 minutes. They think he may have literacy specific LD but until an Ed Psych assessment can be carried out we will not know this for sure.

My question is for those who have had a child in the RR programme, did you see a big difference at the end of it? Did they catch up, or at least make some improvement? Obviously we are doing what we can at home to support his reading.

Toe by Toe is available on Amazon but I'd look at Whitedraig's recommendation of Dancing Bears as a more age appropriate choice

The Dancing Bears seems similar to Hooked on Phonics. Are you familiar with that mrz?

Mrz I think reading recovery definitely helped. He has speech problems which made phonics based systems trickier for him.

So you wouldn't recommend the OP use Toe by Toe

I personally think the dancing bear decoding pages were the break through point for DS.

His reading age is well above average now - he a compete book worm.

He was lucky at timing of RR - he missed mainly assemblies though another child of ours got very upset at missing lessons for interventions - we questioned the value of some of those a lot never seemed to get us anywhere though.

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You can click look inside link and see pages - decoding power pages are worth a look IMO.

Mrz Toe by toe did help, but it is quite dry. Reading proper books with the reading recovery was more enjoyable for him, and that improved his confidence. I think sometimes you need a combination of methods, and what works for one child won't necessarily work for another. Lots and lots of practice obviously helps and once a child starts to see their own progress their confidence improves and that helps. He also used nessy, and later changed from toe by toe to word hornet as the focus moved to spelling which he still struggles with.

It's also phonics?

I agree with Toe by Toe being dry (so is Word Wasp IMHO) which is what I meant by age appropriate in the absence of a quality phonics program in school I'd suggest Bear Necessities and Apples and Pears as easy to use at home

I believe you that word wasp is dry too. He hates it.