Part of the highly successful early intervention programme Reading Recovery for children experiencing reading and writing difficulties. Literacy Lessons: Designed for Individuals, in two parts, provides administrators and specially-trained teachers with guidance for managing Reading Recovery. It answers the questions of Why?, When? and How? individual literacy lessons for young children at risk can be highly successful. Part One helps practitioners to understand the latest theory and research surrounding Reading Recovery around the globe, giving insight into the importance of teacher-child conversation and exploring the relevance of phonemic awareness, spelling, phrasing and fluency in written language.