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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, [...]
Classroom Practice: 9 Strategies for Teaching and Practicing Sight Words
Sponsored by Pioneer Valley Books Building a solid sight word vocabulary is essential for early reading success. Learning sight words enables young readers to focus their cognitive energy on decoding unfamiliar words and understanding [...]
“And how are the children?” by Allyson Matczuk
RRCNA 2024-2025 Board President Allyson Matczuk presented the below address at the closing session of LitCon: National K-8 Literacy and Reading Recovery Conference. It is reprinted here with her permission. "And how are the [...]
LitCon: Know Before You Go
LitCon is just days away! Can you feel the excitement? Before you hit the road, below are a few final details to prepare you for the best LitCon ever! Pack your bags 🚗 ✈️ [...]
