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Spotlight Speaker: Keynote Dr. Shuaib Meacham
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 [...]
Phonics is a Piece of the Puzzle, Not the Only Answer
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 [...]
Everything You Know is Wrong: Reading Edition
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 [...]
RRCNA Membership Spotlight: Leslee Valencia
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 [...]
Data Dives with IDEC: Delving Deeper into Student Growth
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 [...]
Book Lovers Day: LitCon Keynote Jason Reynolds
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 [...]
Rise to the Challenge: A Message from RRCNA President
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, [...]
RRCNA Membership Spotlight: Celia Victoria
Learn about your colleagues from across the country who do whatever it takes as part of the Reading Recovery Community! Celia was able to attend LitCon this year because of a generous financial award [...]
Celebrating Diverse Paths to Literate Lives: The International Reading Recovery Institute
Last week, school was out, but the International Reading Recovery Institute was in! The Institute celebrated diverse paths to literate lives, with Reading Recovery leaders and educators from around the globe sharing their knowledge [...]
The Print, Not the Pictures, Contains the Message
By Laura Ramos & Mary Ann Arellano Descubriendo la Lectura (DLL) is designed for first graders having difficulty learning to read and write in classrooms where literacy instruction is in Spanish. For more [...]
