An Observation Survey Of Early Literacy Achievement

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.

Copymasters for An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement, Third Edition, and Literacy Lessons Designed for Individuals, Second Edition, contains blackline masters of all the official recording forms and summary sheets from the books. All the forms are fully updated to reflect the fully revised and expanded content from An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement, Third Edition and Literacy Lessons Designed for Individuals, Second Edition, are easily reproducible for immediate use.

Copymastersfor An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement, Fourth Edition, and Literacy Lessons Designed for Individuals, Second Edition, contains blackline masters of all the official recording forms and summary sheets from the books. All the forms are fully updated to reflect the fully revised and expanded content from An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement, Fourth Edition and Literacy Lessons Designed for Individuals, Second Edition, are easily reproducible for immediate use.

Copymasters for An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement, Third Edition, contains blackline masters of all the official recording forms and summary sheets for administering the Observation Survey. All the forms are fully updated to reflect the fully revised and expanded content from An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement, Third Edition and are easily reproducible for immediate use.

The video companion to Marie Clay's An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement, Third Edition, presents two demonstrations of its six observation tasks: Running Records Letter Identification Concepts About Print Word Reading Writing Vocabulary Hearing and Recording Sounds in Words. These Guidenotes have been updated to concur with the recently released third edition of Marie's classic.

"It is essential to use the instructions in 'Copymasters for the revised second edition of An observation survey of early literacy achievement (2006)' and 'Literacy lessons (2005)' to administer, score, and interpret these tasks. The copymaster sheets are not the assessment tasks."--P. [ii].

Responding to the wealth of new evidence on reading and teaching that's appeared since the publication of Reading Recovery, Marie Clay has revised and updated her classic. Expanded into two new volumes and renamed Literacy Lessons, this powerful pair of companion books will help teachers and administrators understand and implement Reading Recovery. New features include: - new teaching procedures based on crossdisciplinary research- implementations from a variety of international settings and in three languages- new emphases on oral language, early writing, phonemic awareness, and spelling- updated lists of reading books.

"It is essential to use the instructions in 'Copymasters for the revised second edition of An observation survey of early literacy achievement (2006)' and 'Literacy lessons (2005)' to administer, score, and interpret these tasks. The copymaster sheets are not the assessment tasks."--P. [ii].

These literary masterpieces are made easy and interesting. This series features classic tales retold with color illustrations to introduce literature to struggling readers. Each audiobook CD (one CD per title) features professional actors and sound effects and include page-turn beeps, page-number prompts, background music, and multi-cast voices. Books are sold separately. Journey between London and Paris during that perilous time known as "The French Revolution." This is a story of two men that look alike- one in danger of being beheaded by the guillotine, and the other, a hero that sacrifices his own life for his friend. The French Revolution has been called "The Reign of Terror," and you will feel the terror in your own bones as you read!

Responding to the wealth of new evidence on reading and teaching that's appeared since the publication of Reading Recovery, Marie Clay has revised and updated her classic. Expanded into two new volumes and renamed Literacy Lessons, this powerful pair of companion books will help teachers and administrators understand and implement Reading Recovery. New features include: - new teaching procedures based on crossdisciplinary research- implementations from a variety of international settings and in three languages- new emphases on oral language, early writing, phonemic awareness, and spelling- updated lists of reading books.

New full-color alternative to Sand and Stones, this "Concepts About Print" test can be used with the new entrant or nonreader, enabling the child to point to certain features as the examiner reads the book. An Observation Survey presents the theoretical background, administration details, and scoring interpretation of the tests.

"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.

Change Over Time in Children's Literacy Development presents a comprehensive account of young literacy learners constructing networks of interacting systems for processing information, an account extending from the time of the children's first engagement with reading and writing tasks to their development of a self-extending system of literacy expertise. To show how children's initially simple sets of responses become controlled, accurate, and coordinated, Marie Clay has drawn on research evidence and theoretical constructs from developmental psychology, neuropsychology, information processing theory, and linguistics. This book is a theoretically rich, informative, and compellingly readable account of children's literacy learning with wide professional relevance. Teachers, educators of teachers, researchers, and students will return to it often to advance their understandings and guide their work with young literacy learners. Marie Clay presents her theoretical perspectives on learning, intervention, and the prevention of literacy difficulties with reference to: detailed observational studies of young children learning to read and write theoretical models of literacy processing understandings from neurological sciences her thirty years of experience with the successful literacy intervention Reading Recovery. She directs particular attention to the often neglected topics of children's writing, visual learning, and self-correction and also alerts readers to the limitations of current explanations and poses provocative hypotheses for ongoing exploration. Challenging, thoughtful, and vitally relevant, Change Over Time in Children's Literacy Development will continue to be essential reading for literacy professionals around the world.

These papers deal with issues related to continuous entry to school, teaching reading to five-year-olds, cross-cultural comparisons, multilingual subgroups, the prevention of reading difficulties, an early intervention program, and the inservice training of teachers.

"Teacher-centred, practical, and research-based, this collection of articles by Marie M. Clay draws on her lifelong passion for children's literacy and teacher education. Marie Clay demonstrates how understanding what children know becomes the key to effective teaching, how teachers need to look at early literacy learning through children's eyes, and listen to children as they converse, how writing should be the powerful partner of reading"--Back cover.

Boundless Horizons tells the extraordinary story of Marie Clay's lifelong search for new possibilities in teaching young children to read and write. She pursued a tantalising quest: "What is possible for children with reading problems? What would have to change?' Observing young readers in ordinary classrooms she uncovered explanations of how children take on literacy learning and how that learning changes over time. From those discoveries arose the internationally successful literacy intervention for children having temporary difficulty-Reading Recovery.

There is no shortage of innovative educational programs – the challenge is learning how to scale and sustain those with strong evidence of effectiveness. This book focuses on Reading Recovery – one of the few educational innovations that has successfully expanded and established itself in several educational systems in the world. Developed by Marie Clay in New Zealand during the mid-1980s, Reading Recovery is an intensive intervention for young students who are struggling to learn how to read, and has expanded to several countries across the globe over the last 30 years. Providing evidence of the intervention’s effectiveness both in the short- and long-term, this volume presents in-depth studies to elucidate why the program is effective; discusses the trials and tribulations in scaling and sustaining the program; and approaches scaling and maintaining from theoretical and practical perspectives. The contributors to this book explain how Reading Recovery has established itself because it has maintained a strong focus on evidence; developed a deep sense of community among its practitioners; and was at the forefront in enhancing professional development of the teachers who delivered the intervention. Understanding the implementation experiences of the intervention is beneficial for any innovation developer who wishes to grow and sustain an intervention. The chapters in this book were originally published as articles in the Journal of Education for Students Placed At Risk.