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Marie Clay and Literacy Construction |
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Marie Clay, noted New Zealand educator and developmental psychologist, was the developer of Reading Recovery, an internationally known and used early interventional program for struggling readers.
Also influential in the field of early literacy development, she coined the term emergent literacy and posited that children began constructing literacy at birth and that reading is a complex, problem-solving process. She posed the following principles to explain how this process takes place (Clay, 1991):
· Children construct their own understanding.
· Children come to literacy with varying knowledge.
· Reading and writing are reciprocal and interrelated processes.
· Learning to read involves a process of reading and writing continuous text.
· Learning to read involves a continuous process of changes over time.
· Children take different paths to literacy learning.
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