Reading Recovery positively impacts grade 1 literacy achievement immediately after the intervention, with moderate evidence from one randomized controlled trial¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · quant-synthesis r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2023 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Reading Recovery improved student literacy achievement at the end of the implementation year, based on a large randomized controlled trial. → lit-1

Evidence¶

lit-1¶

What Works Clearinghouse, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. (2023, June). Reading Recovery® Intervention Report | English Language Arts Topic Area. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/730

q3 · i? · quant-synthesis · r2

WWC synthesis of May et al. (2015), a low-attrition randomized controlled trial with 6,888 grade 1 students in 1,254 U.S. schools. The report states there is "moderate evidence that Reading Recovery® positively impacted student achievement in literacy" at the end of the implementation year.

"Based on one study that meets WWC standards, there is moderate evidence that Reading Recovery® positively impacted student achievement in literacy immediately after the intervention."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Reading Recovery has positive effects on general reading achievement for beginning readers, based on three randomized controlled trials — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• Reading Recovery has potentially positive effects on reading fluency, from a single randomized trial — related
• Reading Recovery improves receptive communication skills immediately after the intervention, with promising evidence from one small quasi-experimental study — related
• Reading Recovery improves writing productivity immediately after the intervention, with promising evidence from one small quasi-experimental study — related
• Reading Recovery shows strong ESSA evidence of positive effects on general literacy achievement and moderate evidence on academic dispositions for grade 1 students — related
• Reading Recovery shows uncertain effects on general academic achievement ten years after the intervention — related
• Reading Recovery improves writing conventions three years after the intervention, but the effect is significant only against one of the two comparison groups — related