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Reading Recovery (RR) is a programme developed in New Zealand by Marie Clay (1985) in the late 1970s and early 1980s to help children identified as making only limited progress in reading after a year of formal reading instruction. The programme was implemented throughout the country in the mid- to late 1980s to assist those children whose reading progress falls in the lowest 15%–20% of the enrolment cohort in any given school. Clay (1987) was very confident about the effectiveness of RR. She claimed that it is a
programme which should clear out of the remedial education system all the children who do not learn to read for many event-produced reasons [i.e., environmental, cultural, or economic causes] and all the children who have organically based problems but who can be taught to achieve independent status in reading and writing despite this. (p. 169)
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Chapman, J.W., Greaney, K.T., Tunmer, W.E. (2015). Is Reading Recovery an Effective Early Literacy Intervention Programme for Children Who Most Need Literacy Supports?. In: Tunmer, W.E., Chapman, J.W. (eds) Excellence and Equity in Literacy Education. Palgrave Studies in Excellence and Equity in Global Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137415578_3
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