Mark your calendars for Monday, January 29! You won't want to miss Unshrinking Literacy, Teaching and Learning with Peter Johnston. The currently popular literacy narrative is that intensive, structured phonics programs backed by “The [...]

Join us this year in a five-part series while we follow the journey of Heather Cherry as she trains to be a Teacher Leader. By Heather Cherry Long before Marie Clay began building her legacy in [...]

“It’s all Greek to me!”  This expression usually means something is hard to read or understand.  I shared that sentiment many times on my travels over the last few months. While traveling to Greece [...]

It all starts on Saturday, January 27, 2024, with Dr. Shuaib Meacham! Kick off a fantastic LitCon with Dr. Meacham's opening keynote address, Literacy, Joy, and Resilience: Hip Hop Literacy, Youth Excellence and the [...]

By Cathy Monda After years of lopsided media stories overemphasizing phonics, I was happy to see EdWeek’s article, A Focus on Phonics or Comprehension? What Reading Research Should Look Like in Practice. As a [...]

Originally published August 23, 2023. Republished with permission by Paul Thomas, author of the blog Radical Scholarship. https://radicalscholarship.com/2023/08/23/everything-you-know-is-wrong-reading-edition/ As a teenager in the 1970s, I was turned on to The Firesign Theater, and in those [...]

Learn about your colleagues from across the country who do whatever it takes as part of the Reading Recovery Community! What is your favorite thing about Reading Recovery? If I had to pick one [...]

By Dr. Kate Nelson and Dr. Susie Mauck In our last post, we explored student growth with Observation Survey (OS) Total Scores for students with an outcome status of Accelerated Progress and Progressed. In [...]

Celebrate National Book Lovers Day by watching this interview with LitCon 2024 Keynote Speaker Jason Reynolds, where he joins The View to discuss banned books and how to pass on a loving of reading [...]

By RRCNA President Debra Rich Greetings Reading Recovery Community, What a wonderful time to be a Reading Recovery, Literacy Lessons, Descubriendo la Lectura (DLL), or L'intervention préventive en lecture-écriture (IPLE) Teacher, Teacher Leader, Trainer, [...]