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You’ve Been Duped: What the Headlines Haven’t Told You About NAEP
It’s not often you come across a piece in the mainstream media that dares to challenge the status quo when it comes to reading instruction. So when one finally does—like Dr. Paul Thomas’s op [...]
Profit over Progress? When Market Hype Masquerades as Science, Kids Lose
‘The truth behind the endless “kids can’t read” discourse” gets SO CLOSE to the point. Author Catherine Grady presents a refreshingly nuanced portrait of the national literacy conversation, shining a light on both real [...]
A Smarter, More Reliable Way to Level Reading Materials for Students
Matching students with books at just the right reading level is critical—but not always easy. Traditional leveling systems often rely heavily on content features alone, which can lead to unreliable results and mismatches between [...]
Teacher Leader Institute 2025 – Building Bridges with Literacy Processing Theory
Teacher Leader Institute – A Gathering to Learn, Lead, and Inspire We're only a few weeks away from the Teacher Leader Institute, an energizing and thought-provoking professional learning event designed to build capacity, foster collaboration, [...]
Be the Teacher You Know You Can Be: Principles of Practice
by Peg Grafwallner Today, more than ever, teachers have taken the blame for everything wrong in education: blame for students’ poor academic performance, failed district mandates and school initiatives, and student apathy and laxity. [...]
Kingfishers, Tuataras, and Sheep, Oh My! Rethinking Book Introductions by Kathleen A. Brown
Ever discover a book that you think is a perfect choice for a student or group, and realize you are unable to give a proper book introduction? Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the topic [...]
Journal of Reading Recovery: Spring Issue Released!
Spring is finally here, and with it comes another brilliant issue of the Journal of Reading Recovery (JRR)! JRR is a peer-reviewed journal published by the Reading Recovery Council of North America as a [...]
Prioritize Education Research! RRCNA Signs Friends of IES coalition letter
The Reading Recovery Council of North America joins 70+ other education associations and advocates in supporting funding for the Institute of Education Sciences. The coalition, Friends of IES, wrote a joint letter urging Congress [...]
Intervention Essentials: Authentic Reading Experiences Through the Lesson
Why authentic reading experiences? Each day, Reading Recovery® students experience lessons that have been created by expert literacy teachers. In planning, these Reading Recovery teachers attend to analysis of the previous day’s lesson and [...]
No More Leveled Readers
By Connie Briggs, Mary Anne Doyle, and Wendy Vaulton It has been said before but bears repeating: Text levels are for teachers, not readers. Text levels should never define a child’s reading journey. Furthermore, [...]
