Welcome to the Central Maine Reading Recovery Training Center
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[Maine Literacy Partnership] [Reading Recovery]

What is Reading Recovery?


Reading Recovery is an early intervention for children in grade one who need extra help in reading and writing. This supplemental program allows children a second chance for learning. One aim for this individual, short-term intervention is for the lowest achieving children to make accelerated progress and become competent, independent readers and writers in approximately 12 to 20 weeks. In addition, Reading Recovery identifies those children who are in need of a longer or different intervention.

Currently, 19 students in SAD 46 are benefiting from this instruction. The Reading Recovery teachers at the Dexter Primary School are Jan Chase and Ginna Thomas. Val Michaud  is the Reading Recovery teacher at the Garland Elementary School.

Reading Recovery Teacher Training

During the training year, teachers participate in a summer workshop focusing on the administration, scoring, and interpretations of early literacy assessments. Then teachers attend classes, which are held weekly, after school for graduate level university credit and work with children on an individual basis as part of their school day.

Continuing Professional Development Classes

Reading Recovery teachers continue to update and increase their knowledge through ongoing Continuing Professional Development classes and peer coaching. Teachers continue to come together to take turns teaching for one another behind a one-way mirror while the rest of the class observes. Guided by the teacher leader, the observing teachers discuss the effects of the teacher's instructional decisions based upon newer practices in the reading and writing processes. In addition, the teachers visit each other to observe and talk about their teaching. The teacher leader who acts as a coach also visits teachers.

The Central Maine Reading Recovery Training Site supports these schools and districts:  Harmony, Greenville, SAD 64, SAD 68, SAD 41, SAD 4, SAD 46. Anne Jordan is the Reading Recovery Teacher Leader for the Central Maine Site, providing training and professional development to the Reading Recovery Teachers in these districts.

There are 6 Reading Recovery training sites in the State of Maine. The Central Maine Site is located at the Dexter Primary School. Dusty Nelson is the Site Coordinator for the training site.


Click here for directions to the Training Center at Dexter Primary School

Central Maine Reading Recovery Training Site Team:

Kevin Jordan,  Superintendent

Dusty Nelson, Site Coordinator
Anne Jordan, Teacher Leader
Sandra Padham, Bookkeeper

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Reading Recovery Training Site Website.

For more information on the Reading Recovery Program:

www.rrcna.org  (Reading Recovery Council of  North America)