Bugg Stories vol. 8

oh yeah six year old jake two way mirror at a courthouse elementary school in east nashville for thirty minutes every school day he works one on one with the reading recovery teachers the school select first graders for this program by testing chemical letters of the alphabet that you know have a high frequency words they recognize such as cancer over after what they understand about the concepts of threat and which direction to read what happens at the end of a sentence the difference between a word and a letter reading recovery serves the lowest achieving twenty percent the kids who just aren't getting better all right in a real recovery is based on the research of the moment or child psychologist mari clay she says children must learn to self correct to become good readers and when she found out was the good breeders made

lots of errors is an essay she said she was humbled by the fact that good readers made lots of errors but what was different with the good breeders noticed and poor readers did notice they've made lots of arizona just kept on waiting and jill smith spearing is the real recovery trainer from actual schools six years ago school officials asked her to spend a year at ohio state university to learn reading recovery and bring it back to nashville with a master's degree in reading spearing expected it to be easy she was rocking we had to learn how to look at students differently and headed teach differently whereas when i was in the classroom that i made a mistake i was the one who monitored ups something in his own right and it was so difficult for me to learn to keep my mouth closed and give the talent opportunity to notice that it didn't sound right for the first two weeks the teacher will roam around the known in other words rice the child anything he or she can't answer in this way spearing says they build on what a child knows while building

self confidence or how principal clementine chamberlain says she can tell which students are intriguing recovery prior to having them incentive program they were the ones who would look at a hit to save a little about anything and now they will have a conversation with here they'll just talk and they'll go it's not to me you know to me the program is one of dozens funded by federal money called tidal won fifty seven schools in metro receive title one funds to help low achieving students eight of those schools spend part of their time and money and reading recovery principal chamberlain has made real recovery a priority at core how big was two years ago we had a hundred and sixty seven thousand ballot cut from it but i wish i didn't have to make the decision of whether or not i had a reading teacher your computer lab manager i wish i didn't have to make those kinds of choices but at this point it won't matter what's on the computers the kingdom either chamberlain those real recovery ruffle some academic feathers by focusing on first grade intervention teachers at

higher grade levels don't see money for their programs the channel and says they will notice a difference when he's reading recovery children reach the upper classes teachers won't have to backtrack anymore then there's the dropout rate chamberlain police kids began to mentally dropout by fourth and fifth grade long before they physically do that's the way they've decided this is not only animal do whatever i came to not be embarrassed in class because i can be not be embarrassed because i don't know the answer i'm gonna drop that event acting out and getting put out of the classroom or being so quiet that you don't know than me and that's a that's a silent trump chamberlain and spearing believe reading recovery can also affect the growing numbers of special education fifteen percent of all metro schoolchildren are in special ed it's twelve percent across the nation if you get raped and they get read anything they are no shops are

workshops and i write and do nothing a mayor hours straight meet pigeon ornstein you're fall on a special education teacher joyce dickens is also reading recovery trained she teaches a third and fourth grade behavior disorders class or she takes every chance she can to teach reading the option to that if you can raid is killing and on the computer it's entering data is sitting in a desk in prison live for young lady who may not have a great academic skills but if she can read and transfer then information her life she could be productive we'll have to give her ssi check dickens is reading recovery can have an impact on special education numbers and she knows it by personal experience three years ago her granddaughter was attending kindergarten in the fluid public school in the suburbs by the second six weeks her teacher was talking about retaining her and getting her tested for special at joyce dickens new for granddaughter cristina went to special education she would likely never make it out she applied for a transfer to courthouse where cristina was tested as one of the two low

as children in first grade jill spearing took the task of thirty minute sessions everyday her behavior was so impulsive she would be farms with arresting a man who lived as kiki you know it was nothing for her to keep me with jamaican accident because he was just it was just so impulsive and a better reader should be carrying less impulse in this past summer it's wonderful they're each fell asleep at his favorite places have delayed james christina reading harry the dirty dog is now in second grade and on the honorable reading recovery has its detractors it is a pullout program when kids are in the thirty minute sessions they miss what's happening in the regular classroom to lessen that impact real recovery teachers alternate the times they worked with the children critics also say the

cost the amount of money compared to how many students are served is too high reading recovery teachers say one on one intervention is expensive but compared to the cost of retention and special ed reading recovery is two thousand to twenty five hundred dollars per child the cost retention is more than four thousand dollars and the cost of special education is more than five thousand dollars per child mitchell's title one quarter later mart the home and says she was skeptical about the program at first after all new initiatives often cause of jump an achievement the first year but she wanted proof that reading recovery had a lasting impact and what we saw wires these key aides as we followed the alvin school getting stronger and stronger and second there greg goes back to this court said we believe that the rail a really help the kiev early enough they will not be helping obesity sufficient in the future armed with these numbers and the belief that they are making permanent changes in reading skills korea

hal has started marketing several times a week jill spearing by its principal school board members council members and more to do you a lesson behind the glass each thursday morning a dozen breeding recovery teachers crowd together with several state senators to watch teacher joe littlejohn were with d'angelo when he started reading recovery fifteen weeks ago d'angelo could write two words in ten minutes his name jill spearing is used to people admiring the success of the program but no moaning the cost but she figures showing more and more people this program someday someone might say it's time to fund it for every school so she says first when asked about her passion for reading recovery that she takes a deeper i was retained as a fifth grade student aid i remember every day going in to school but my parents dropping me off at the front door and i would throw up before we go into the schools i hated math teacher i've

never heard anything good about what it had her parents put her into another school with a teacher she says was able to see her strengths it's something she's never shared with friends and not even the real recovery teachers she so passionately trains it still hurts andy stanley's get it done and understand what the future holds for him if they continue to be retained and even if they catch up you know with the average us orally caught up with the average and in one arm but it's still such an idea stigma so to convince principles to try the program lawmakers and council members to fund the program and parents to understand at jule sperry will continue inviting everyone to come see on any day a courthouse by the way christina the child destined for special education should be reading for the metro board of education at one of their meetings later this month for national public radio i need to pay

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