Reading Recovery Council of North America

The Journal of
Reading Recovery
Contents
Fall 2007
Marie Clay: A Visionary Educator
Simply By Sailing in a New Direction You Could Enlarge the World . . . . . . . . 7
Marie M. Clay
The Doctoral Research Project: 1962–66: From Research to Practice . . . . . . . . 13
Ann Ballantyne
International Perspectives on the Reading Recovery Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Marie M. Clay
Clay’s Messages as President of the International Reading Association . . . . . . . 35
Billie J. Askew
Marie Clay: An Eminent Scholar
How Far Reading Recovery Ideas Travel: For Marie with Thanks . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Courtney B. Cazden
A Vygotskian Interpretation of Reading Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Marie M. Clay and Courtney B. Cazden
A Tribute to Marie Clay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Carol Lyons
Learning to be Learning Disabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Marie M. Clay
Revolutionary Contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Peter Johnston
Child Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Marie Clay
Concepts About Print in English and Other Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Marie M. Clay
Marie Clay’s Work in Irish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Gabrielle Nig Uidhir
The Development of Concepts About Print in Greek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Eufimia Tafa and Eva Konstantellou
Marie Clay: An Honored Mentor, Colleague, and Friend
A Tribute to Marie Clay: She Searched for Questions That Needed Answers . . . 89
Billie Askew
Marie M. Clay: Demonstrating That the World Can Be Different . . . . . . . . . . 93
Gay Su Pinnell and Irene C. Fountas
Remembering Marie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Diane DeFord
Dame Professor Marie M. Clay: Scientist, Professor, Colleague . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Stuart McNaughton
continued
Fall 2007 Journal of Reading Recovery

Editorial Staff
for The Journal of Reading Recovery
Editor in Chief
Mary Anne Doyle, University
of Connecticut
Teaching Section Editor
Eva Konstantellou, Lesley University
Implementation Section Editor
Salli Forbes, Emporia State University
Research Section Editor
Anne Simpson, Texas Woman’s University
RRCNA Section Editor
Marsha Studebaker, Reading Recovery
Council of North America
Editorial Review Board
Billie Askew, Texas Woman’s University
Janet Behrend, University of Arkansas
at Little Rock
Connie Briggs, Emporia State University
Janet Bufalino, Shippensburg University
of Pennsylvania
Catherine Compton-Lilly, University of
Wisconsin at Madison
Diane DeFord, University of South Carolina
Linda Dorn, University of Arkansas
at Little Rock
Sue Duncan, Georgia State University
Judy Embry, University of Kentucky
Barbara Honchell, University of North
Carolina, Wilmington
Irene Huggins, Western Canadian Institute
of Reading Recovery
Noel Jones, University of North Carolina,
Wilmington
Elizabeth Kaye, Texas Woman’s University
Patricia Kelly, San Diego State University
Mary Lose, Oakland University
Kathleen Martin, University of Alabama
at Birmingham
Cynthia Rodríguez, Texas Woman’s
University
Yvonne Rodríguez, Texas Woman’s
University
Maribeth Schmitt, Purdue University
Barbara Schubert, Saint Mary’s College
Robert Schwartz, Oakland University
M. Trika Smith-Burke, New York
University
Dianne Stuart, Canadian Institute of
Reading Recovery
Floretta Thornton-Reid, Georgia State
University
Janice Van Dyke, Central Canadian Institute
of Reading Recovery
Garreth Zalud, University of South Dakota
Contents
continued
An Honored Mentor, Colleague, and Friend CONTINUED
Marie Clay: Splendid Scholar and Literacy Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Linda Gambrell
Marie Clay—A Tribute to An Enduring Scholar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Bridie Raban
Our Tribute to Marie Clay: A Pioneer of Large-Scale
Education System Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Kenneth G. Wilson and Constance K. Barsky
Sustaining the Legacy of Marie Clay
Charting the Future: The International Reading Recovery
Trainers Organization and the Marie Clay Literacy Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Mary Anne Doyle and Graham McEwan
Origin and Evolution: Reading Recovery in New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Christine Boocock
Australia: First Offshore Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Janice Farmer Hailey
Expansion of Reading Recovery in the United States: A Collaborative Effort . . 122
Connie Briggs
A Journey with Marie Clay:
Translating An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Yvonne Rodríguez
Influence of Marie Clay in Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Irene Huggins
Influence of Marie Clay in Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Julia Douëtil
The Last Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
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Journal of Reading Recovery Fall 2007