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 Joanne Hibbard. Sandra Lowry and Michelle Bowden are the Reading Recovery teachers 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 28 schools. These schools are: Brownville Elementary School, Marion C. Cook School, Milo Elementary School, Dexter Primary School, Garland Elementary School, Bradford Elementary School, Kenduskeag Elementary School, Stetson Elementary School, Monson Elementary School, Morton Avenue School (Dover-Foxcroft), Nickerson Elementary School, Pemetic Elementary School, Mt. Desert Elementary School, Connors-Emerson School, Trenton Elementary, Lamoine Elementary, Beech Hill Elem, Cave Hill School, Mountain View Elementary, Ellsworth, Bucksport, Deer Isle- Stonington. Thirty-two Reading Recovery teachers represent these schools.

There are 6 Reading Recovery training sites in the State of Maine. The Central Maine Site is located at the Dexter Primary School. Tim McCluskey 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

Tim McCluskey, 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)