Helping Beginning and Struggling Readers to Develop Self-Regulated Strategies: A Reading Recovery Example

Abstract

In this article, the authors explain how one of them helped a struggling reader develop reading, writing, and self-regulatory strategies. The article is based on two foundations: Marie Clay's, the developer of Reading Recovery, ideas on the self-extending system of reading and Schunk and Zimmerman's four developmental levels of self-regulation (i.e., observation, emulation, self-control, self-regulation). The authors use examples of four strategic activities used within Reading Recovery sessions. Then, they give advice to teachers and other literacy specialists on how to guide their developing and struggling readers in moving through these four levels of self-regulation.