V. Reading comprehension     Reading Recovery refers to a short-term, one-on-one-tutoring-based intervention program designed to help first-graders who struggle with reading—specifically, the lowest one-third of their class—to achieve grade-level reading ability. The Reading Recovery Council of North America claims a 75-percent success rate among students who complete the program. Furthermore, their follow-up studies state that students who have completed the program maintain their grade-level reading ability for years to come.
    Reading Recovery provides half an hour daily of private instruction for 12 to 20 weeks, which ends
whenever the student reaches grade-level ability. These half-hour sessions occur during school hours, so students in the program are taken out of class for their tutoring sessions. Reading expert Louisa Moats asserts that full-class instruction, assisted or augmented with small-group, in-class work is a more effective approach to reading instruction.
    School districts that wish to implement Reading Recovery must pay for teacher training, materials and additional expenses that can include travel expenses and data analysis fees. The Reading Recovery Council estimates a cost of $2,500 in materials for students, plus roughly $400 in additional fees. This figure does not include the graduate teacher training, which varies from institution to institution. Some grants are available, but the program is still costly.
    According to Moats, Reading Recovery is based on the whole language approach that reading is an organic activity for children: that they learn primarily by exposure. This idea contradicts scientifically-based reading research, which asserts that children learn to read by systematically mastering skill sets, beginning with speech sounds and letters, otherwise known as phonics. Moats continues that Reading Recovery’s research lauding its own success has ignored an alarming point of data: The 25 to 40 percent of their students who could not complete the program have been left out of their cited data
【題組】57. Which of the following items is not a drawback of Reading Recovery mentioned in the article?
(A) Cost of the program.
(B) The complicated computer console.
(C) Scientific illegitimacy.
(D) Time out of class.