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A Principal’s Guide to Reading Recovery in Canada

Are you a Principal or Vice-Principal responsible for the implementation of Reading Recovery in your school?  Would you like an amazing reference guide to assist you in understanding Reading Recovery and supporting your Reading Recovery Teachers so that your young students can achieve success in reading and writing?

The Canadian Institute of Reading Recovery is delighted to announce the publication of A Principal’s Guide to Reading Recovery in Canada (2018).   This 80 page, full colour guide recognizes the key role that principals play in ensuring success for Reading Recovery Students and Teachers in their schools. 

The guide includes chapters on:

  • What is Reading Recovery/IPLÉ
  • Principal’s Key Role in Reading Recovery
  • Key Personnel for Reading Recovery
  • Professional Development and Reading Recovery
  • Evaluation of Student Outcomes
  • Reading Recovery/IPLÉ in your School
  • Generating Support and Sustaining Reading Recovery/IPLÉ in your School
  • Role of Canadian Institute of Reading Recovery, Sample Interview Questions, Working with Reading Recovery Teachers, Standards and Guidelines for Teacher Training

This invaluable guide is $10 and can be pre-ordered now.  We are accepting bulk orders for this book from school districts who complete this order form.  Orders will be filled by mid-December.   We encourage school districts to purchase copies for each of their Principals, Vice-Principals and other School Administrators as well as a few extra copies for future needs.  Orders will be shipped directly to the district.

The book can also be downloaded at no cost for use on your electronic devices.

We thank the Canadian Reading Recovery Trainers (Jennifer Flight, Christine Fraser, Yvette Heffernan, Allyson Matczuk, and Janice Van Dyke) for their work in editing the content of this guide and ensuring that it is a very useful document for years to come.

Implementing Reading Recovery in Manitoba First Nations

In 2014, the first Reading Recovery Training Centre in a First Nations community opened in Manitoba.  The opening was cause for celebration.

Reading Recovery in First Nations

Gloria Sinclair, Reading Recovery Teacher Leader for Manitoba First Nations Education & Resource Centre.

Gloria Sinclair was selected as the first Teacher Leader to guide the implementation of Reading Recovery.  The winter issue of The Journal of Reading Recovery, features an article written by, Gloria Sinclair, Allyson Matczuk and Irene Huggins.  The article that reflects on the implementation of Reading Recovery by the Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre.  Outlined are the details of how Reading Recovery has been implemented in an area that this made up of many small, rural and very remote communities.

Read about the achievements of Ray, a student who could recognize only 7 letters and with only 12 lessons he read little books, wrote in full sentences and confidently answered questions about what he was doing!

The implementation has been so successful that a second Teacher Leader has been trained and another Reading Recovery Training Centre has just opened in Thompson, Manitoba.

Learn more by reading the full article.