What are young children learning as they engage with literacy instruction at school?  

Are they experiencing success or falling behind? How soon can we tell? 

An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement, Fourth Edition provides teachers and school systems with essential information about... more

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... more

Copymasters for 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... more

One of six tasks in Marie Clay’s Observation Survey, this helpful stand-alone guide provides information and forms for using Follow Me, Moon; No Shoes; Sand; and Stones to assess children’s ability to control the conventions of print.

In about ten minutes, Concepts About Print provides accurate and reliable information... more

“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... more

“This book captures the essence of Marie’s work. It is fundamentally practical and theoretically rich. Marie is revered for her contributions to the field of literacy and for her wisdom and deep commitment to children and their teachers. That wisdom and commitment is evident everywhere in  this book. Savor it.”
—Peter Johnston, author of Choice... more

From her lifelong study of children’s development and learning, Marie Clay traces children’s paths of progress in literacy learning. Acclaimed a classic since its first publication, Becoming Literate: The Construction of Inner Control is essential reading for teachers and educators committed to enabling all children to become literate.

Effective teachers... more

Proficiency in oral language has long been considered important by teachers for self-expression and for communicating ideas.

Children who are learning to speak English catch on to the rules:

• first by grasping the early structures
• then those of medium difficulty
• and finally those of greater difficulty.

Awareness... more