Reading Recovery: A Guidebook for Teachers in Training - Softcover

Clay, Marie M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0435110012 ISBN 13: 9780435110017

Publisher: Pearson Education Limited, 1994

Synopsis

Reading Recovery is a companion volume to 'An Observation Survey' (Clay, 1993). The Survey introduces teachers to ways of observing children's progress in the early years of learning about literacy, and leads to the selection of children for whom supplementary teaching is essential. This volume is a guidebook for training teachers to deliver such a supplementary programme. It addresses the hope and scope of an early intervention programme. Key Points: 1. Children entering the programme are those from ordinary classes who have the most difficulty in reading and writing after one year at school. 2) The programme is different for every child. The child's competencies are the starting point and the programme moves from these competencies towards what the child is trying to do; 3) The teaching is individually designed and individually delivered. Each child has an intensive programme of daily instruction which supplements the regular class instruction activities; 4) Reading recovery helps 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 programme. This is a guidebook for the training of Reading Recovery teachers in a year-long theoretical and practical course. Teacher training and a plan for implementing the programme in an education system are important for cost-effective results. Where recognised training accompanies the use of the teaching procedures in this book, success rates are consistently high. By the same author: 'Becoming Literate'; 'An Observation Survey' and 'Sand and Stones'. Contents: 1. The Prevention of Reading and Writing Difficulties; 2. Reducing Reading and Writing Difficulties With a Second Change to Learn; 3. The Shape of the Reading Recovery Child's Programme; 4. Reading Recovery Teaching Procedures; 5. When to Discontinue Tutoring; 6. The Reading Recovery Research Reports; Bibliography; Appendices; Index

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson Education Limited
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0435110012
• ISBN 13: 9780435110017
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112