Synopses & Reviews
Butler and Clay have provided not only parents but also educators with a much-needed book...I highly recommend Reading Begins at Home, I feel it should be on the bookshelves of parents, grandparents, and teachers.
- The Reading Teacher
Butler and Clay present easy and informal ways to prepare a child to begin reading and to help him or her respond positively to written words. Their book has helped thousands of parents and teachers.
Review
Butler and Clay have provided not only parents but also educators with a much-needed book...I highly recommend Reading Begins at Home, I feel it should be on the bookshelves of parents, grandparents, and teachers.The Reading Teacher
Review
Butler and Clay have provided not only parents but also educators with a much-needed book...I highly recommend Reading Begins at Home, I feel it should be on the bookshelves of parents, grandparents, and teachers.The Reading Teacher
Synopsis
Butler and Clay present easy and informal ways to prepare a child to begin reading and to help him or her respond positively to written words.
About the Author
Dorothy Butler is a teacher, bookseller, author, and children's literature advocate known and respected throughout the world. She lives in New Zealand, where she enjoys reading as often as she can with her twenty-one grandchildren.Marie Clay, FRSNZ, FNZPsS, FNZEI(Hon),Emeritus Professor, taught in primary schools and then at the University of Auckland where, for the next 30 years she introduced educational psychologists to ways of preventing psychological problems. She did post-graduate study in Developmental Psychology at the University of Minnesota on a Fulbright Scholarship and completed her doctorate at the University of Auckland with a thesis entitled "Emergent Literacy." Her 'Reading (and writing) Recovery' is an early literacy intervention, which is now implemented in five countries, and three languages. Literacy Lessons Designed For Individuals integrates what has been learned from that innovation with new research and theoretical advocacies. Shifts in early literacy learning can be monitored by teachers using her Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement in English, Spanish and French. A series of individual lessons can be delivered in those languages to about 150,000 children worldwide annually using a guidebook called Reading Recovery: Guidelines for Teachers in Training. Literacy Lessons Designed for Individuals is a similar guidebook which aims to make accelerated progress possible for a wider range of problems. Marie Clay was past-President of the International Reading Association, served on the editorial committees of professional journals, was a research consultant at home and abroad including UNESCO, chaired a Social Science Research Committee advising government on policies and research allocations, and worked internationally with problem-solving related to early intervention research and practice.