Effects of Reading Recovery last through the end of elementary school

The Reading Recovery annual report for the UK shows that 11-year-old children who received Reading Recovery at age six matched their classmate's progress for the following six years, through the end of elementary school.

Reading Recovery, which is also available in the U.S., is designed to help low-achieving first graders improve to age-expected levels. The report shows that in 2011-12 - the first year that enough Reading Recovery children had reached the end of elementary school and completed the UK's Key Stage 2 national assessments  - 78 percent of children who had completed the program achieved Level 4 or above in their reading assessment, and 67 percent achieved the same in writing (by age 11, the national expectation for most children is to achieve Level 4). Nearly all children achieved Level 3 or above, with 95 percent achieving this level in their reading assessment and 98 percent in writing.