Reading Recovery Progress

So excited to have Corey come off reading recovery. He has made such great progress. He started at Level 8 and finished reading Level 19 easy after 16 weeks. This has been really rewarding and I'm really proud of him. To add to this Shaun and Anna-Rose are close to finishing also. Shaun started at Level 5 and is now reading 17 well. Over the next couple of weeks I will support him further with his writing and understanding of print concepts. He has gained a huge amount of confidence in his abilities to read and write and I have really enjoyed being a part of this for him. Anna-Rose's biggest weakness is her fluency and phrasing and I'm finding it difficult to help her improve this. With a lot of reminding and prompting she can phrase 2-3 words together ok but still not whole sentences. As stated in Literacy Lessons Designed for Individuals Part 2. I think staccato word-by-word reading is now a habit for Anna-Rose and it's going to take a while to break it. A strategy I will try this week is to slide a card across the text making her speed up. Olivia is my most challenging student. She is making progress but it is very slow. She seems to have a lot of problems with visual memory. Her decoding is fairly good when she looks carefully but she is very slow due to her often not recognising high frequency words. Finally I have Anaru who is almost finished his Roaming lessons. He is very enthusiastic and I think he will progress quite quickly. He has a lot of good skills that I am hoping will come together to help him fly.