- Johnsonville Elementary
- Reading Recovery Lesson Components
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Lesson Components
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- Read several familiar books
- Helps the child to understand stories and encourages fluent, effortless reading
- In every lesson students get to read a lot of books that are on their level to help increase their fluency when reading.
- Reading a story that was read once the day before
- Teacher will take a running record to check the child's reading level.
- Allows the teacher to observe the child's strengths as well as confusions in reading.
- Helps the teacher check on a child's progress and plan instruction.
- Letter Identification and Word Work
- Colorful magnetic letters are used to help build an understanding of how letters and words work.
- Helps the child learn fast recognition of letters.
- Helps the child learn how to get from known words to new words.
- Helps the child build an understanding of the process of word construction that they can use while reading and writing.
- Writing a Sentence or Short Story
- After the sentence is completed, it is written on a sentence strip, cut-up, and sent home to be reassembled for homework.
- Students create and write their own story everyday in their own journal.
- Encourages the child to use sound and letter relationships to write words and to write down known words quickly.
- Helps the child learn capitalization, punctuation, and sequencing.
- Reading a New Book that is read independently the next day
- At the end of every lesson a new book is introduced. The book is chosen especially for a child based on his/her interests, vocabulary, and content.
- Teacher encourages the child to use previously learned strategies while reading.
- Promotes independent problem solving.
Letter Identification and Word Work
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