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May 14, 2022, I published what I thought would be my last word on Reading Recovery (RR) http://shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/me-and-reading-recovery. Fat chance. RR, if you don’t know, is a remedial reading program for first gra...
Blast from the Past: This blog first posted on November 3, 2018, and was reposted in revised form on March 14, 2026. The original title was, “The Whys and Hows of Research and the Teaching of Reading.” As you can see, I’ve retitled it. The term “science of reading” is both widely used and widely misunderstood today, so I have provided considerable revision here – though the overall points are the same. If you want to see the original, it is linked at the bottom (along with the more than 50 comments it elicited). I talk a lot about research in this space. I...
Teacher Question As my teachers continue learning together about text-centered planning, I would love your help with a quick reflection. When you sit down to plan a unit: How do you decide which comprehension standards the anchor text n...
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