Marie Clay

Marie Clay: Literacy Processing Theory

Marie Clay has written several instructional

books about children and their literacy development.

-Observing Young Readers

-Reading Recovery: A guidebook for teachers in training

-Reading: The Patterning of Complex Behaviour

-Writing Begins at Home: Preparing Children for Writing Before They Go to School

-Becoming Literate

-By Different Paths to Common Outcomes

-Change Over Time

She has also written "Concepts about Print" books that allow teachers to test students on literacy based on pictures and not words.

-Sand

-Stones

-Follow me, Moon

-No Shoes and many more

Reading

Recovery

-Marie Clay

1960

Educational Timeline

1955

A theorist was born in 1926!!!!

"Can we see the

process of learning

to read and write

going astray close

to the onset of

instruction?"

Marie Clay began

the investigation

of her doctoral

research

questioning...

1945

Reading Recovery is a short-term intervention for first graders having extreme difficulty with early reading and writing. Specially trained teachers work individually with students in daily 30-minute lessons lasting 12 to 20 weeks. After a full series of lessons, about 75% of these formerly lowest students reach grade-level standard.

Marie left the United States

and moved back to New

Zealand...

1960

1948

Marie completed her primary teacher's certificate at the Wellington College of Education

Marie started assisting with teaching

a training program for Diploma of

Educational Psychology.

Born in Wellington, New Zealand

Marie Clay traveled to the United States in 1950 on a Fulbright Scholarship

Where she began to work

for the Department of

Education Psychological Services for University of Auckland.

and a Smith-Mundt grant to study

University of Auckland

Educational Psychology

Marie Clay was the first non-North American to be elected president of the International Reading Association

Marie Clay's Literacy Processing Theory focuses mainly on Emergent Literacy.

DEVELOPMENTAL AND CLINICAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY

1946

Marie Clay was awarded a Master's of Arts degree in Education with honors!

at University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Welfare.

Her master's study was,

In 1971, Clay became

president of the

Auckland Reading

Association (ARA).

"The Teaching of Reading to Special Class

Marie Clay

Emergent literacy

Children."

was coined by Marie Clay

William S. Gray Citation of Merit

in 1966. The term refers to

1995

Marie Clay

the beginnings of literacy or

Marie graduated with senior scholarship in Education for her Bachelors of Arts degree and decided to advance her study to attain her Master's degree.

Marie was on the council

from 1970 to 1974.

Contribution to invigorating the

the process of becoming

international emphasis of the IRA!

1 9 5 0

literate.

"In a complex model of interacting

competencies in reading and writing the reader can potentially draw from all his or her current understanding, and all his or her language competencies, and visual information, and knowledge of printing conventions, in ways which

extend both the searching and linking processes as well as the item knowledge repertoires. Learners pull together necessary information from print in simple ways at first... but as opportunities to read and write accumulate over time the learner becomes able to quickly and momentarily construct a some-what complex operating system which might solve the problem. There is no simplified way to engage in the complex activities."

By: Jenny Coates & Tommy Crist