Reading Recovery teachers identify the lowest attaining children in literacy, at age five or six, and provide intensive individual lessons, every day for 30 minutes: The Reading Recovery teacher also works closely with the class teacher, school team and parents to support the children receiving additional help. Once trained, Reading Recovery teachers can also contribute to raising literacy standards across the school.
How to apply to train a Reading Recovery teacher: Initial Professional Development and Continuing Professional development in Reading Recovery are delivered at a local level. To book a place on the course, please contact the teacher leader at the local centre.
Overview of Costs
Reading Recovery delivers the best results for children falling seriously behind in literacy. The better use you make of the Reading Recovery teacher, the more you will get from your investment.
Getting Started
Like any new initiative in a school, costs are slightly higher at the start, but these are very quickly balanced out over the years. The main costs in the first year are employing a teacher for teaching in school and time for the Initial Professional Development (IPD) course, which can be accessed locally. Employing an already accredited Reading Recovery teacher would provide you with a lower start-up cost.
Your teacher would work individually with the lowest attaining children for a minimum of four half hour lessons per day, plus preparation and follow up time. Fortnightly IPD sessions bring the total equivalent to 0.6 FTE.
In many regions, there is no charge for training. In the UK, the cost starts from £2, 490. Contact the Teacher Leader in your area for more information about cost.
Resources required are:
- Teacher’s text books
- Children’s reading books
- Magnetic whiteboard and letters
Number of children served in the first year: 6 to 8
Once Qualified
Once your Reading Recovery teacher has completed the IPD course, the costs are considerably lower.
In addition, the number of children who can be served will be higher as the teacher takes on the wider role of supporting literacy in the school.
You will need to fund:
- 0.5 FTE teacher time including six half day professional development sessions throughout the year;
- Additional children’s books.
In many regions, there is no charge for continuing professional development. In the UK, prices start from £1, 144. Contact the Teacher Leader in your area for more information about this.
Your Reading Recovery teacher is now experienced and highly skilled to teach the lowest attaining in Reading Recovery, and to support a wide range of literacy interventions to meet children’s differing needs through mentoring, monitoring and quality assurance.
Number of children served annually:
Reading Recovery: 8 to 10
Are you looking for a Reading Recovery Centre?
Please contact the Reading Recovery Teacher Leaders in the following areas:
England:
Brighton & Hove and Portsmouth – Rebecca Shore: bex@shoreline-education.com
Bristol: Rebecca Shore: bex@shoreline-education.com
London: Jennifer Harrison: jennifer@readingworks.org.uk
Kent and South East: Jennifer Harrison: jennifer@readingworks.org.uk
Greater Manchester – Fiona Botterill: fionabotterill@gmail.com
Scotland:
East Renfrewshire area: Gillian Gourlay: gourlayg@ea.e-renfrew.sch.uk and Lucy Cosstick: cosstickl@ea.e-renfrew.sch.uk
Ireland:
Athlone – Angela Healy: angela.healy@oide.ie
Cork – David Bermingham: david.bermingham@oide.ie and Colm O’Neill: colm.oneill@oide.ie
Dublin Marino Institute of Education – Niamh O’Leary: niamh.oleary@oide.ie and Aoileann Ni Chomhrai: aoileann.nichomhrai@oide.ie
Dublin West – Deirdre MacCauley: deirdre.maccauley@oide.ie and Rebecca Feely: rebecca.feely@oide.ie
Galway – Dearbhla McMahon: dearbhla.mcmahon@oide.ie and Neasa Burke: neasa.burke@oide.ie
Kilkenny – Anne Marie Macken: annemarie.ryan@oide.ie
Limerick – Ann-Marie Hayes: ann.mariehayes@oide.ie
Monaghan – Aisling McGovern: aisling.mcgovern@oide.ie and Fiona Murphy: fiona.murphy@oide.ie
Malta: Janet Maria Cristina, National Literacy Agency: janet.maria.cristina@ilearn.edu.mt