Concepts about Print: What Have Children Learned about the Way We Print Language?

Marie M. Clay

Heinemann, 2000 - Design - 32 pages

This helpful guide provides information on administering Follow Me, Moon and No Shoes as well as Sand and Stones.

Contents

• Observing What Children Have Learned About the Way We Print Language: 4
• More Technical Background Information on the Concepts About Print Task: 16
• Appendices 227: 27

About the author

Marie M. Clay started off her career as a teacher before going on to work at the New Zealand Ministry of Education in the Psychological Services Department. Some time later, Clay went to work for the University of Auckland, where for the next thirty years, she trained other psychologists for their jobs. Clay used her knowledge of normal and clinical aspects of developmental psychology to teach others as a visiting professor at the Ohio State University, University of Illinois, Texas Woman's University, Oxford University, and the Institute of Education at the University of London. President of the International Reading Association from 1992-1993, Clay still advocates a literary awareness program that urges teachers to think about literary betterment and the power of writing.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Concepts about Print: What Have Children Learned about the Way We Print Language?
• Author: Marie M. Clay
• Illustrated by: Marie M. Clay
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Heinemann, 2000
• Original from: the University of Virginia
• Digitized: Nov 25, 2009
• ISBN: 0868632988, 9780868632988
• Length: 32 pages
• Subjects: Design / Graphic Arts / Typography; Education / Teaching / Subjects / Reading & Phonics; Education / Testing & Measurement; Language Arts & Disciplines / Reading Skills