Reading Recovery and Early Literacy, Inc.

RREL, Inc. includes several entities working to improve reading education nationwide.

• Keep Books - promotes reading and home/school literacy connections by offering a wide variety of high interest titles at reading levels appropriate for pre-kindergarten through second grade.
• Literacy Collaborative - The Literacy Collaborative is a long-term professional development program designed to provide a comprehensive, school wide approach to literacy instruction in the primary and intermediate grades. The goal of this program is to raise the level of achievement for all students.
• National Data Evaluation Center - The National Data Evaluation Center's primary mission is to process evaluation research data for all Reading Recovery programs in the United States.
• Reading Recovery project at OSU - Reading Recovery is a professional development initiative which partners university faculty and school district personnel to prepare highly qualified literacy coaches and teachers. These professionals work with first grade students having the greatest difficulty learning to read and write. Faculty members in OSU's College of Education first implemented Reading Recovery in the U.S. in 1984 and since that time, the project has scaled up to serve over 1,000,000 children and prepare over 30,000 teachers.

Contact RREL, Inc.

Address:
807 Kinnear Rd.
Columbus, OH 43212

Executive Director's Office:
(614) 688-4977

Email:
Sonny Whitehead