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Intervention Essentials Part 1: Guaranteed Access to a Full Series of Lessons
by Connie Briggs Why does the Reading Recovery trademark guarantee participating students a full series of lessons that may be up to 20 weeks of instruction? “The quality and integrity of your implementation
Freedom In The Classroom Is At Risk
by Connie Briggs A nightmare scenario is unfolding in American public schools today, driven by a minority of parents with loud voices and support from misguided legislators. Left unchecked, it could put at risk the
Canadian Institute of Reading Recovery Statement on the Ontario Human Rights Commission Right to Read
March 8, 2022 The Canadian Institute of Reading Recovery applauds the Ontario Human Rights Commission for the ambitious inquiry into how Ontario’s publicly funded English-speaking schools are ensuring students with reading disabilities are learning to
The “Simple” View of Reading Belies its Complexity
by Laurel Dickey There's a heated debate underway in education circles about the best way to teach reading and I'm sorry to say that most of the chatter misses the point. I've been teaching our
7 Takeaways from Gay Su Pinnell’s Learning to Make a Difference: A Lifetime Journey
By Dr. Billy Molasso Over 1800 literacy professionals came together with a common goal at LitCon 2022 — to strengthen their knowledge and expertise to help struggling readers. Your passion for childhood literacy was evident
Where have all the readers gone?
By Braedan Schantz Aida sat down beside her Reading Recovery teacher talking at an auctioneer’s pace. Her dad brought home a new kitten last night, and now she has three of them. “That’s just
Our School Ambassador
by Kimberly Reynolds I never quite understood the magnitude of the saying, “seeing something through the eyes of a child” until the last couple of months of school last year. That is when I had
New Research Affirms Positive Impact of Reading Recovery During COVID
By Dr. Billy Molasso, Executive Director of RRCNA The news is in and it’s good for Reading Recovery’s teacher-led tutoring program for struggling first graders. Our annual research from the International Data Evaluation Center
What is your song?
by Kim Reynolds Have you ever heard a song from the past that brings you right back to that very moment in time as if nothing has ever changed? I used to laugh at my
High-Quality Tutoring Strategies to Facilitate Acceleration, Not Remediation
The latest in a webinar series hosted by the AASA, The School Superintendents Association and Learning Policy Institute features effective, high-quality tutoring strategies to accelerate, not remediate student gains during this COVID-19 school year and
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