New Releases by Marie Clay

"Running Records for Classroom Teachers explains how to accurately record what children say and do as they read any book, and how teachers can score and interpret these records. When these standard recording and score procedures area used, Running Records provide accurate and reliable assessments of children''s reading. Classroom teachers use records of text reading to check how well a text is matched to a child''s reading, monitor the progress children are making, and compare and group students in their class. Running Records have been found to be good text reading assessments in many research studies. They provide different information from that obtained from tests of letters, sounds and words in isolation. Teachers find that close observation and recording of students'' behaviour informs their understanding of how young children learn to read and allows them to provide appropriate learning opportunities."--Cover.

Copymasters for An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement, Third 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 Survey of Early Literacy Achievement, Third Edition and Literacy Lessons Designed for Individuals, Second Edition, are easily reproducible for immediate use.

Copymasters for An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement, Third Edition, contains blackline masters of all the official recording forms and summary sheets for administering the Observation Survey. All the forms are fully updated to reflect the fully revised and expanded content from An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement, Third Edition and are easily reproducible for immediate use.

Biks and Gutches is an easy-to-administer-and-score task. It looks too simple to be very useful but with it we can easily predict which young children need extra help with learning English. Giving this assessment to individual children will help the teacher become a better judge of how a child''s oral language is changing. The items can be used to evaluate whether a new teaching programme is having any effect. Change can be captured over two points in time. If the school has introduced some new or special instruction, Biks and Gutches can be used to evaluate its effectiveness. Results could point to the rate and kind of change that has occurred as a result of special attention. For children who speak a dialect of English the test can answer questions like this: Has the children''s control over the rules for inflections of the standard dialect increased? Children usually learn and use both school and ''home'' versions of English and they know when to use either version. Sometimes the nonstandard usage dominates, and this can have consequences for school assessments in standard English. Compare the test and retest scores to see the rates of change and any persistent problems. The items in Biks and Gutches were designed for the five- to seven-year-old age group but have been used successfully in research with children up to ten years old.

The Concepts About Print tests can be used with the new entrant or nonreader because the child is asked to help the examiner by pointing to certain features as the examiner reads the book. An Observation Survey presents the theoretical background, administration details, and scoring interpretation of the tests. Since its publication Sand has been a favorite diagnostic tool of reading teachers, and Stones was developed to provide an alternative.

One in three of the Early Literacy Series written for parents, caregivers, early childhood teachers and teachers of children in their first years at school. It presents research-based ideas for at-home instruction in beginning reading concepts, encourages effective one-to-one learning situations and supports in implementing key strategies to develop reading skills.

The "Concepts About Print" tests can be used with the new entrant or nonreader because the child is asked to help the examiner by pointing to certain features as the examiner reads the book. An Observation Survey presents the theoretical background, administration details, and scoring interpretation of the tests. Since its publication Sand has been a favorite diagnostic tool of reading teachers, and Stones was developed to provide an alternative.

The convenient rip-pads of running record sheets enable teachers to easily chart young readers'' progress. Available in sets of five pads - each containing one hundred sheets.

Grade level: 1, 2, 3, k, e, p, t.