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Follow My Journey: Oral Exams
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 What a semester it has been! [...]
Interview with LitCon Featured Speaker Paul Thomas
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/2022/12/03/rethinking-reading-policy-in-the-science-of-reading-era-what-paul-thomas-will-be-saying-at-litcon-this-year-an-update-by-dr-sam-bommarito/ P. L. Thomas, Professor of Education (Furman University, Greenville SC), taught [...]
Aligned with the Sciences: How does Reading Recovery teach phonics?
By Dr. Rebecca Jesson and Judy Aitken Shared with permission. Originally published in Volume 37 Issue 3 2022 of Literacy Forum NZ. You may have heard or even contributed to a call for Aotearoa [...]
RRCNA Membership Spotlight: Stephanie Logsdon
Learn about your colleagues from across the country who do whatever it takes as part of the Reading Recovery Community! Stephanie is able to attend LitCon this year because of a generous financial award [...]
Thank You, Reading Recovery Community!
Thanksgiving is a time for reflection, togetherness, and gratitude. This year, we're thankful for every member of the Reading Recovery Community. Thank you for working tirelessly to help children learn to read. Browse our [...]
Active Problem Solving in Reading is NOT a Guessing Game
By Jamie R. Lipp, Ph.D. Originally posted December 16, 2019 "They are not guessing. They are computing the likelihood of the features that they recognise belonging to the word they have predicted” (Clay, 2016, p.145). [...]
Educators Honored with International Literacy Leadership Award
Four individuals will be recognized with the 2023 Excellence in Literacy Leadership Award presented by the Reading Recovery Council of North America. Each year, Reading Recovery teacher leaders from across the US and Canada [...]
Revisiting the Recently Reported Longitudinal Study of Reading Recovery
In her most recent podcast, Emily Hanford includes information about an AERA research presentation by Dr. Henry May, professor at the University of Delaware, that showed Reading Recovery students did not sustain gains through [...]
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 [...]
