Excellent, thank you. I was and am not defending Reading Recovery. I will admit that I was not able to get to the core of the thesis in the podcast (s) and th

Excellent, thank you. I was and am not defending Reading Recovery. I will admit that I was not able to get to the core of the thesis in the podcast (s) and that I was being led around. I never experienced Reading Recovery first hand. 3-queuing seems like a heuristic that escaped the lab. Useful, but it should be the method of last resort if you can't ask an adult or find a dictionary. I am also not saying that everything needs to have a scientific study to be shown effective. I learned to read by being read to, and having the joy of reading instilled at a very young age. I was encouraged to ask about passages or words I don't know. Your writing is excellent. Even if it wasn't intended, anything that as a byproduct, encourages kids to makeup definitions of words or skip over anything is an affront to our collective body of knowledge.