Reading Recovery - Brief History

Brief History

The program was developed in the 1970s by New Zealand educator Dr. Marie Clay. After lengthy observations of early readers Dr. Clay defined reading as a message-getting, problem-solving activity, and writing as a message-sending, problem-solving activity. Dr. Clay suggested that both activities involved linking invisible patterns of oral language with visible symbols (Clay, 2005).

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