Literacy Lessons Designed for Individuals

By Marie Clay and Marie M. Clay

Book Overview

"How can a switch to individual instruction be so powerful in its effects?... The lessons start with what the child can already do."

--Marie Clay

This new edition of Marie Clay's invaluable text contains the teaching procedures, implementation practices, and theoretical understandings that underpin Reading Recovery.

This second edition includes teaching procedures that have been progressively refined and revised over the past ten years in response to the experiences of Reading Recovery professionals, new research, and changes in education systems around the world.

Literacy Lessons describes an early literacy intervention that:

builds on children's strengths as the foundation for learning is directed toward a curriculum of in-the-head processes for working with written language utilizes reading and writing activities maximizes children's contributions to their own learning.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325074550
• ISBN13: 9780325074559
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.2" x 10.0"
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 3