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The Place of Phonics in Reading Recovery: Understanding the Nonsense Claim
Marie Clay’s literacy processing theory is multifaceted and complex, and thus, misunderstandings may occur when extracting partial information from any of Clay’s writings. This appears to be the key to explaining the recurring - and [...]
Interview with LitCon Speaker Matt Renwick
Video shared with permission by Dr. Sam Bommarito, author of Dr. Sam 7, Seeking Ways to Grow Proficient, Motivated, Lifelong Readers & Writers: https://doctorsam7.blog/2022/11/05/dr-sam-interviews-matt-renwick-about-his-book-leading-literacy-like-a-c-o-a-c-h-and-his-upcoming-workshop-at-lit-cons-literacy-institute/ Matt Renwick has served for 23 years as a teacher and [...]
The Black Hole of Social Media
By Kimmi Sorg Yesterday my fourth-grade son told me you can hear sound coming from a black hole -- it sounds almost like an annoying cat crying. He had a video from YouTube that NASA [...]
Marie Clay: A Personal Reflection on an Unparalleled Professional Career
By P. David Pearson, UC Berkeley Evelyn Lois Corey Emeritus Professor of Instructional Science A note to the reader: I wrote the initial draft of this essay soon after Marie Clay’s death in 2007, but [...]
Joint International Statement in Response to Hanford’s Sold a Story
GET THE PRINTABLE VERSION In response to Sold A Story, a podcast by Emily Hanford A Joint Statement from North American Trainers Group Canadian Institute of Reading Recovery Reading Recovery Europe Reading Recovery New Zealand [...]
Fact Check: Three Things Hanford Got Wrong about Dr. Marie Clay
GET THE PRINTABLE VERSION Emily Hanford, journalist and ‘science of reading’ advocate, posted a podcast specifically about Marie Clay’s theory and research. The content is fraught with inaccuracies, misrepresentations, and cherry-picked quotes that cannot [...]
The ‘science of reading’
GET THE PRINTABLE VERSION By Paul Bowers Originally published October 19, 2022. Republished with permission by Paul Bowers, author of the newsletter Brutal South https://brutalsouth.substack.com/p/the-science-of-reading-and-other In May 2019 I attended the Education Writers Association conference in [...]
Reading Recovery: The Facts
GET THE FACT CHECK POSTER DOWNLOAD PRINTABLE FACTS A Message from the North American Reading Recovery Trainers Reading Recovery teaching reflects the complexity of early literacy learning. As with many [...]
Empowered Teachers: Key to Reading Recovery
by Elizabeth L. Kaye, Ph.D. For decades, Reading Recovery® teachers have been successfully teaching first-grade children who have been unsuccessful in their classroom literacy programs to read and write within a period of only [...]
An Open Letter to Principals Who Support the Reading Recovery Community
By Kathleen Brown Dear Principals who support the Reading Recovery Community, In honor of National Principals’ Month, the Reading Recovery Community wholeheartedly thanks you for supporting literacy teaching and learning for the most struggling readers [...]
