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RRCNA Membership Spotlight: Megan Dodd
Learn about your colleagues from across the country who do whatever it takes as part of the Reading Recovery Community! Megan received a professional development award to attend LitCon this year, thanks to generous [...]
Follow My Journey: Under Pressure
Cambridge University defines the word pressure, in its simplest of terms, as the force you produce when you press on something. Of course, Cambridge provides several other uses for the word, and some are more appropriate [...]
LitCon 2024 Recap: Inspiration and Rejuvenation
Another year, another successful LitCon! Reading teachers, interventionists, Reading Recovery professionals, and district leaders gathered for a spring weekend in Columbus, Ohio, January 27 -31. After the first in-person Litcon last year since 2020, [...]
Ohio releases its Approved Curriculum List, and the Deja vu is real
Just in time for Groundhog Day, history is repeating itself. But for those of you playing along and to refresh education's collective long-term memory loss, let's recap: Established as part of the No Child [...]
RRCNA Membership Spotlight: Ashley Martin
Learn about your colleagues from across the country who do whatever it takes as part of the Reading Recovery Community! Ashley received a professional development award to attend LitCon this year, thanks to generous [...]
LitCon Keynote Speakers
LitCon is next week, but there’s still time to register and see these can’t-miss keynote speakers. Register today to connect with colleagues, learn from the best, and return to your schools inspired by speakers [...]
New Featured Session Added: Niigaan Sinclair
With LitCon only a few weeks away, you won't want to miss the newly added session Not a Branch but the Tree: Indigenous Literacies and the North American Canon. Check out the other featured [...]
RRCNA Blog: A Year in Review
From sharing exciting updates to spotlighting our members, the RRCNA blog is your resource for what's new in the Reading Recovery Community. In 2023, we advocated that Reading Recovery works and explored how to [...]
Book Choice Matters Part Two: Text Variety and Lifelong Readers
In the first part of this blog, we examined the importance of using data when selecting books for an individual child and the critical role of motivation and engagement. In this installment, we will [...]
Book Choice Matters Part One: Data, Motivation, and Engagement
Every day in a Reading Recovery lesson, we have the opportunity to introduce a new book to the child sitting beside us. In Literacy Lesson Designed for Individuals (LLDI), Clay advised us to select [...]









