Part of the highly successful early intervention programme Reading Recovery for children experiencing reading and writing difficulties. Literacy Lessons: Designed for Individuals, in two parts, provides administrators and specially-trained teachers with guidance for managing Reading Recovery. It answers the questions of Why?, When? and How? individual literacy lessons for young children at risk can be highly successful. This edition contains both Part One and Part Two (previously published in separate volumes). Part One helps practitioners to understand the latest theory and research surrounding Reading Recovery around the globe, giving insight into the importance of teacher-child conversation and exploring the relevance of phonemic awareness, spelling, phrasing and fluency in written language. Part Two is an essential resource to aid teaching of the Reading Recovery programme and is the perfect training manual for practising teachers.

"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.

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.

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.

Written for specialists, leading teachers, graduates and academics, this in-depth study discusses the theories, questions and developments in early literacy intervention that have made Marie Clay a leader in this area.This thoughtful and challenging book allows people working in early intervention to draw on the success of others from around the world.

Part of the highly successful early intervention programme Reading Recovery for children experiencing reading and writing difficulties. Literacy Lessons: Designed for Individuals, in two parts, provides administrators and specially-trained teachers with guidance for managing Reading Recovery. It answers the questions of Why?, When? and How? individual literacy lessons for young children at risk can be highly successful. Part One helps practitioners to understand the latest theory and research surrounding Reading Recovery around the globe, giving insight into the importance of teacher-child conversation and exploring the relevance of phonemic awareness, spelling, phrasing and fluency in written language.

Part of the highly successful early intervention programme Reading Recovery for children experiencing reading and writing difficulties. Literacy Lessons: Designed for Individuals, in two parts, provides administrators and specially-trained teachers with guidance for managing Reading Recovery. It answers the questions of Why?, When? and How? individual literacy lessons for young children at risk can be highly successful. Part Two is an essential resource to aid teaching of the Reading Recovery programme and is the perfect training manual for practising teachers.