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I'd just like to add my two cents to Anna's comments about Reading Recovery. I agree 100% with everything she said. I'd also like to add that it is very stressful for the teacher since he/she has a window of 20 weeks to get the student to the average reading level of the class (not necessarily on grade level but to the average level of the class as a whole). There is also the competition among fellow RR teachers regarding how many students were "discontiued" from the program. This means, how many students did they successfully exit from the program. If a fellow teacher happened to have a better crop of kids to work with he/she will have a higher discontinue rate....very bad for the ego of the teacher who didn'tfare as well! Then there is all the paperwork and record- keeping. There is the initial pre-testing, entering data on the computer on the RR site, daily lesson records which is kept in a log for each student, daily correspondence to parents including the books that are to be read...See More


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