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A psychologist, Clay studied education, and realized there is a time where it's most important to intervene with kids who had trouble reading: before the end of the first grade. That directly contradicted conventional wisdom, which was kids would "catch on" by themselves in the second or third grade. Many didn't. Clay's program, Reading Recovery, spread fast from her native New Zealand. "She was by far the most important champion of the idea that reading problems could be identified and addressed with young children," said Timothy Shanahan, president of the International Reading Association. "She found that she could catch a lot of these kids up and keep them from falling behind." Most importantly, studies of the program shows it works. Clay died April 13 in a hospice in Auckland, New Zealand. She was 81. From This is True for 15 April 2007 Suggestions for further reading:
 By: Marie M. Clay List Price: $14.00 Amazon Price: $12.60 Editorial Review: What can we notice children doing as they read a simple story? What are they looking at? How do they know when they have lost the message? What do they do about it? Running Records for Classroom Teachers introduces key ideas about using Running records and shows how to take, score, and interpret reliable records.  By: Marie M. Clay List Price: $21.50 Amazon Price: $19.35 Editorial Review: Reading Recovery is a guidebook for training teachers to deliver an early intervention program designed to reduce literacy problems in an education system. Children entering the Reading Recovery program are those from ordinary classes who have the most difficulty in reading and writing after one year at school. Since the Reading Recovery program is different for every child, the implementation of a successful program requires thorough teacher training. Using the child's competencies as a starting point, the program advances toward what the child is trying to accomplish. The teaching, therefore, must be individually designed and individually delivered. Using the guidelines in this book, teachers learn how to provide each child with an intensive program of daily instruction which supplements the regular class instruction activities. The goal of Reading Recovery is to help children acquire efficient patterns of learning to enable them to work at the average level of their classmates and to continue to progress satisfactorily in their own school's instructional program. When recognized training accompanies the use of procedures contained in this book, success rates are consistently high and surprising.  By: Marie M. Clay List Price: $28.00 Amazon Price: $25.20 Editorial Review: An Observation Survey has been used in educational systems worldwide. It has introduced thousands of teachers to ways of observing children's progress in the early years of learning about literacy. It has also helped them determine which children need supplementary teaching. Now the revised Second Edition updates this important sourcework with new data, ideas, and implementations from U.S. and U.K. classrooms. A comprehensive review of Reading Recovery in the United States by five distinguished authors is available separately at the RRCNA Web site. Authors Maribeth Schmitt, Billie Askew, Irene Fountas, Carol Lyons, and Gay Su Pinnell share their knowledge and provide persuasive evidence for the power of an early investment in changing futures of children. http://www.readingrecovery.org/sections/home/changingfutures.asp  By: Marie-Jeanne Abadie List Price: $14.95 Amazon Price: $10.17 Editorial Review: A complete guide to making all kinds of candles at home. For pleasure or business, or indeed both, here is a comprehensive guide to the art of candlemaking including: Selecting the right materials; Choosing the right colours and ingredients for style, texture, scent, and more; Mastering techniques, such as chip, twisted, and applique; Using regular and special containers; and much, much more  By: Marie M. Clay List Price: $15.00 Amazon Price: $13.50 Editorial Review: Successful early literacy intervention must be designed for individuals and delivered by trained teachers in the first two years of school. Literacy Lessons: Designed for Individuals, in two parts, provides administrators and specially-trained teachers with guidance for managing the early literacy intervention called Reading Recovery. It answers the questions of Why?, When? and How? individual literacy lessons for young children at risk can be highly successful. This book is remarkable. It's an outstanding guidebook for training teachers. It is rich in presentations of theoretical concepts and clear rationales for early literacy intervention procedures. New procedures and more extended discussions of familiar procedures are carefully presented and clearly linked to research and theory. Familiar research on oral language development and current or newer research related to brain functioning and cognitive development are woven into discussions, and the frequent suggestions of additional reading are extremely helpful. I think this book will help us to train our teachers to think carefully about childrens instructional needs and to base their instruction on careful observations of learners. The discussions will also reinforce the importance of using all procedures in a judicious manner. Many aspects of this book are valuable. The arguments supporting the need for instruction designed for the idiosyncratic needs of each child at risk are important. The recurring references to individual instruction woven across the book reinforce those arguments. Sections such as What is 'reading' during the early lessons?, What does it mean to 'know' a letter? What does it mean to know a word? will facilitate good discussions and teacher understanding. Both teachers and administrators will gain powerful insights about early literacy intervention for at-risk learners from the two texts. The potential effect on the education of young children is profound. - Professor Mary Anne Doyle, University of Connecticut A comprehensive review of Reading Recovery in the United States by five distinguished authors is available separately at the RRCNA Web site. Authors Maribeth Schmitt, Billie Askew, Irene Fountas, Carol Lyons, and Gay Su Pinnell share their knowledge and provide persuasive evidence for the power of an early investment in changing futures of children. http://www.readingrecovery.org/sections/home/changingfutures.asp |
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