Analysis of the Reading Recovery lessons enabled the identification of similarities
and differences in the teaching procedures used by the teachers of the
hearing children and the children with hearing loss in this study. The first question
investigated in this study was ‘Can the literacy achievement of children
with hearing loss who are experiencing literacy-learning difficulties be improved
by implementing Reading Recovery? This was investigated by collecting and
analyzing the Observation Survey results of the children in the study. As
mentioned in the introduction, these results have been reported in an earlier
publication (Charlesworth et al., 2006). They are reproduced here to convey
the children’s literacy achievements.