The response to last week’s post about Reading Recovery was overwhelming. It set all time personal records on both my Twitter and WordPress accounts. Over 6000 impressions in one day on Twitter. Over 1182 people came to read my latest post on WordPress. The message was from the readers was clear. My readers LOVE Reading Recovery and found that it forever changed their lives as teachers. That change was very much for the better. I’m turning the rest of this blog over to my readers, so you can hear all the wonderful things they had to say about Reading Recovery So…, for my friends on the RR site, know that what you do works, that it is appreciated and that it helps you become better teachers so that you in turn can help the kids. This is my thought for you as you start the new year:
Well done!
Here is my “summary of findings” based on what RR teachers had to say:
Finally- In the original article, I reported on research demonstrating that reading recovery is the most successful early learning program around. It results in improved student performance in both decoding and comprehension. To cap things off, here is one more piece of evidence provided by fellow a fellow blogger, Rhonda from Literacy Pages. Thanks to her for letting me repost her remark. The remarks are on a screen capture so link she gives doesn’t work, but I’ve provided a working version of that link at the end of the blog.
EPILOGUE: I’ve been posting my blog entries on the Reading Recovery Facebook site. That is because the last few blogs have been surrounding RR teachers and what they do. The blog will now be turning to more general literacy topics that focus about finding common ground, good literacy practices and growing lifelong readers. Should I ever have a blog post that directly relates to RR I’ll definitely post that on the RR Facebook site again. I will of course continue to read the RR Facebook site and make comments outside of my blog entries. Remember that it was a comment by a RR teacher on the RR Facebook page that got the ball rolling on this project. THANKS to all the visitors to the blog (over a thousand in the past couple of weeks). I would love to have some of you follow the blog and join in our ongoing literacy discussions. So to see future posts please do subscribe to this blog. I promise you that Bill Kerns and I still have lots more to say about literacy and helping children become lifelong readers.
Happy Reading and Writing
Dr. Sam Bommarito (so grateful that he become a Reading Recovery teacher)
The link from the Literacy Pages blog
http://www.cpre.org/sites/default/files/reading_recovery_final_report.pdf
Special Thanks to Rhonda at Literary Pages for use of her remark and for providing the link.
Special Thanks to Dr. Mary Howard for her encouragement in this project and for taking up this topic on her facebook page.
Special thanks to all who posted on facebook and twitter about my original blog on Reading Recovery.
And a very Special thanks to all the teachers currently implementing Reading Recovery. You are changing the world one kid at a time. And that is exactly how it should be!
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Thank you so much for compiling all of these comments in this way. Just like Susan Vincent, I was also teary eyed while reading the comments. That probably seems a bit strange to some but to be given the tools to help your most struggling readers is a pretty powerful thing. I can picture many students who I failed before my Reading Recovery training. I just didn’t know how to help them. RR teachers certainly do know the power of supporting each other. In my district we have 2 elementary buildings with one RR teacher in each building. I am in one building and my RR buddy, Gen, is in the other building. We call each other almost daily to talk about tricky students & to support each other with analyzing running records and student reading behaviors in general. We can depend on each other to make time to travel to each other’s school to be another set of eyes when needed. Now we even blog together. 🙂 Thanks, for all of the literacy greatness you share!
Now it’s my turn to be teary eyed. Well said. Thanks for the wonderful work you both do as a RR teacher!
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