Reading Recovery® Center for Literacy at NLU
The Reading Recovery Center for Literacy at National Louis University partners with a growing national network of university centers. This partnership supports school districts in achieving shared goals related to school-wide renewal. Collaborative university research projects are being designed to improve educational practices and policies most likely to influence student achievement.
Reading Recovery®/Descubriendo La Lectura (DLL) is a professional development design within a comprehensive approach to whole school improvement which includes effective classroom, small group individual literacy instruction. Research has shown that the lowest achieving first grade children need individually designed literacy lessons. Some need continued supplemental less intensive help in the form of small group intervention.
Literacy Lessons™ professional development aims to prepare Special Education and ESL Teachers who work with Grade 2-4 students who are struggling with the beginning phases of literacy learning. Instruction is designed to help these students acquire an early literacy processing system that will allow them to profit from small group instruction.
Systematically aligning classroom instruction with evidence based interventions, results in the greatest possible student achievement gains. The results of the Partnerships in Comprehensive Literacy (PCL) model has had dramatic results in high-poverty, low achieving schools, as well as schools with average and above average socioeconomic status. The results have been observed in districts across the United States.
