This document summarizes a presentation about Reading Recovery and its benefits as a social justice intervention. It discusses how Reading Recovery can help narrow achievement gaps between students from low-income families and more affluent families. It provides data showing lower literacy rates and higher dropout rates for students from racial minority groups and families earning less than $30,000 per year. The presentation argues that Reading Recovery is an important program to target struggling grade 1 readers who face these socioeconomic hurdles.