The goal of both Reading Recovery and Read Naturally is to give children a self-sustaining system of reading strategies that will allow them to become independent readers and develop a life-long joy for reading.

Reading Recovery is a research-based program developed by Marie Clay. It provides students, who are in the lowest twenty percent of their first grade class, the opportunity to have one-on-one instruction with a trained Reading Recovery teacher. Students receive a thirty minute, daily lesson which provides opportunites for the student to read familiar text, ready novel text, learn how words work and to write as they develop reading and writing strategies.

Read Naturally is a research-based program developed by a Minneapolis Title I teacher. The program combines teacher modeling, repeated reading and progress monitoring to improve the reading fluency of struggling readers.