Supporting transformative research, financial awards, and initiatives to ensure the early literacy and Reading Recovery profession continues forward in excellence.
Reading Recovery works. Every gift makes a difference in bringing one of the most successful international reading and writing interventions to struggling readers across North America. Powered by gifts of all sizes, the Foundation for Struggling Readers supports educators, students, and communities through transformative advocacy, development, and engagement.
The Foundation supports:
- Creating financial awards for professionals to engage in learning experiences.
- Resource development to assist teachers in their schools, classrooms, and with individual students.
- Partnership initiatives to create synergy in early literacy efforts among different organizations.
- Improvement Science and research initiatives to enhance our ability to assist struggling readers.
- Leadership development for emerging and continuing leaders of our community.
- Enhancing our engagement in the early literacy conversation across North America.
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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