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Reading Recovery: The Facts
GET THE FACT CHECK POSTER DOWNLOAD PRINTABLE FACTS A Message from the North American Reading Recovery Trainers Reading Recovery teaching reflects the complexity of early literacy learning. As with many
Empowered Teachers: Key to Reading Recovery
by Elizabeth L. Kaye, Ph.D. For decades, Reading Recovery® teachers have been successfully teaching first-grade children who have been unsuccessful in their classroom literacy programs to read and write within a period of only
An Open Letter to Principals Who Support the Reading Recovery Community
By Kathleen Brown Dear Principals who support the Reading Recovery Community, In honor of National Principals’ Month, the Reading Recovery Community wholeheartedly thanks you for supporting literacy teaching and learning for the most struggling readers
The Foundation for Struggling Readers Annual Appeal
For the first time in years, the Foundation for Struggling Readers will hold an annual appeal to raise $50,000 to support educators, students, and communities through transformative advocacy, development, and engagement. From now through
Teaching Children, Not Just Teaching Reading: Growing Readers, Growing Reading
Dr. Jennifer Scoggin and Hannah Schneewind This is part II of the blog series Teaching Children, not just Teaching Reading. Read part I of the series here. “When we depend on any single measure to
Teaching Children, Not Just Teaching Reading: How Do We Teach Readers and Reading?
Dr. Jennifer Scoggin and Hannah Schneewind Join us on Thursday for Part II of Teaching Children, not just Teaching Reading: Growing Readers, Growing Reading "The teaching should not start where the teacher is but where
The Power of a Name
By Nancy Rogers-Zegarra A new school year is always an exciting time, and as educators, we look forward to teaching and learning from new students. The silver lining of the pandemic was that we had
What is Beautiful About Roaming?
It's Roaming Week at RRCNA! Check back in on Thursday for the rest of our two-part blog series Roaming: The Power of the Known for the blog The Power of Name: Getting Students Off to
Follow My Journey: Training Begins
Join us this year in a five-part series while we follow the journey of Courtney Smith at Clemson University as she trains to be a Teacher Leader. By Courtney Smith I was in a classroom
Closing the Gap Between Research and Practice in the Science of Reading
BOULDER, CO (September 13, 2022) – How students learn to read and how reading is best taught are often the focus of media, public, and political criticism. In a new NEPC policy brief, The Science of
THE JOURNAL OF READING RECOVERY
Spring 2024
Constructing a More Complex Neural Network for Working on Written Language That Learns to Extend Itself by Carol A. Lyons
Reading Recovery IS the Science(s) of Reading and the Art of Teaching by Debra Semm Rich
Predictions of Progress: Charting, Adjusting, and Shaping Individual Lessons by Janice Van Dyke and Melissa Wilde
Teachers Designing for Context: Using Integrity Principles to Design Early Literacy Support in Aotearoa New Zealand by Rebecca Jesson, Judy Aitken, and Yu Liu