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Intervention Essentials: Lessons With Emergent Bilingual Students
Mary D. Fried, The Ohio State University What are some essential shifts in teaching when the Reading Recovery® child is also learning English? Reading Recovery is an inclusive intervention that is successful with a [...]
RRCNA Membership Spotlight: Rachel Spellman
Learn about your colleagues from across the country who do whatever it takes as part of the Reading Recovery Community! Rachel was able to attend LitCon this year because of a generous financial award [...]
Follow My Journey: My Reading Recovery Community
Join us this year in a five-part series while we follow the journey of Courtney Smith at Clemson University as she trains to be a Teacher Leader. By Courtney Smith My colleagues and I have [...]
Is Poetry Unknown During Roaming Around the Known?
By Kathleen A. Brown Are you ready to rejuvenate and revive your Roaming Around the Known Sessions? Why not consider using poetry with your students? How is poetry defined? Britannica describes poetry as follows: [...]
Retired Educator Makes $1 Million Gift to Reading Recovery Program
Reposted from Texas Woman's University February 16, 2023. https://twu.edu/news-events/news/retired-educator-makes-1-million-gift-to-reading-recovery-program/#.Y-1Qw_gjoGw.twitter An Ohio educator and philanthropist who has devoted her career to reading and literacy enhancement efforts has given a $1 million gift to support Texas [...]
LitCon ’23: A Homecoming of Literacy Leaders
On January 28, Columbus welcomed educators from across the country and the world for the homecoming of literacy leaders at the first in-person LitCon in three years! Attendees reconnected with literacy leaders and committed to [...]
Teaching Reading and the Goldilocks’ Dilemma: A Case for Purposeful Literacy
Originally published February 3, 2023 Republished with permission by Paul Thomas, author of the blog Academic Freedom Isn’t Free. https://radicalscholarship.com/2023/02/03/teaching-reading-and-the-goldilocks-dilemma-a-case-for-purposeful-literacy/ Everyone teaching reading is confronted with the Goldilocks’ dilemma. Using terms offered by Stephen Krashen, I [...]
Intervention Essentials: The Annual National Evaluation of Reading Recovery
Mary Anne Doyle, University of Connecticut Originally published in The Journal of Reading Recovery. Interested in full access to the journal? Learn more about becoming a member of RRCNA. Why do all Reading Recovery® implementations [...]
The Process of Letting Go: Exiting a Child from Reading Recovery
By Nancy Lane We all have that feeling as our time with a child draws to an end. The feeling starts in the pit of our stomachs and ends in our hearts as we prepare [...]
Feedback about Readers: Supporting Student Identity
By Dr. Jennifer Scoggin and Hannah Schneewind During Independent Reading in a second-grade classroom, we noticed that one student was flipping back and forth in her book and had a puzzled look on her face. [...]









