Navigating in Reading Recovery
by Sandy Brumbaum This past spring break, I met my daughter in Florence. Because she had been working in Greece for the past year, she had an EU data plan, so we used her phone [...]
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07, 2018
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07, 2018
What’s the Power of Knowing a Word in a ‘Snap’?
by Michal Taylor Moving a sight word from new to fluent retrieval is a crucial part of learning to read. Then immediately having the opportunity to use these words in the cycle of continuous text [...]
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06, 2018
Reading Recovery Works: Spread the Word
by Rhonda Precourt and Gen Arcovio We seem to be going through a time where heavy phonics instruction and skill and drill teaching practices are taking over. The importance of making all interactions with books meaningful [...]
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05, 2018
A Seat at the Table
by Hollyanna Bates A Seat at the Table As a school district literacy coordinator, I worry about literacy. I worry about students learning how to read. I worry about those who find reading difficult. I [...]
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04, 2018
Access + Choice + Expert Teacher = Equity
by Lynn Newmyer Last week a few of my former students were peering into my partially open classroom door. They watched as I unloaded a box of new books onto already overstocked shelves and excitedly [...]