Rich, S. D. (2024) The Journal of Reading Recovery, 23(2).
The author, Debra Semm Rich, examines what she calls a media version of the Science of Reading (SOR) through a Reading Recovery (RR) lens. Rich provides a strong argument for the Art of Teaching as it is exemplified by RR teachers in an individual student’s RR lesson. She argues that a RR teacher uses her understanding of the Reading Process, and an individual student’s strengths to make ‘moment by moment decisions’. This is, according to Rich, ‘the “art” of teaching’ (p. 33). Rich contrasts the complexity of the RR program with the simplistic phonics-only scripted programs promoted by the SOR movement’ (p. 38).
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