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RRCNA Membership Spotlight: Patricia Arce-Marin
Learn about your colleagues from across the country who do whatever it takes as part of the Reading Recovery Community! Patricia was able to attend LitCon this year because of a generous financial award from the Foundation for Struggling Readers.
What is your favorite thing about Reading Recovery?
What is your favorite book?
This is a tough question, as there are many. If we are talking about reading for fun, a recent favorite that I could not put down is The Alice Network by Kate Quinn. I love how the two female protagonists’ stories intertwine and the author’s use of flashback and flash forward between WWI & WWII. If I’m thinking of professional development books, The Next Step Forward In Guided Reading by Jan Richardson has been a constant presence and reference in the past school year. My Reading Recovery teaching partner and I did a book study this past year at school utilizing this text and have used it to inform our practice around guided reading. We will also be using this book for staff PD this school year. Now if we are talking about my favorite Reading Recovery student book, I really like all The Big Spider books, but my favorite in that series is Smack by Bob Martin. I just love how students nearly fall out of their seats laughing when the mom smacks dad with the rolled up paper. It’s my favorite because of the kids’ reaction to it. They just think it’s hilarious.
What do you like to do for fun?
Thank you to our Associate Members and development partners who generously sponsored 2022 – 2023 financial awards
Geri Stone Memorial Fund – Tenyo Family Foundation Grant – Debby Wood Grant – Dr. Olson PD Grant – Teresa Douglas PD Award
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