I Can Read!

I Can Read!offers American teachers a truly fascinating look at the Reading Recovery program Marie Clay developed in New Zealand. This is a method teachers can use to catch beginning readers who are headed for failure and help them improve their skills quickly and with pride of accomplishment. I Can Read!follows three children, Jody, Christopher, and Andre - all age six and all with very different problems. It also follows their teachers, who work through the space of eleven weeks to overcome the students' serious difficulties with early reading. The time, care, and commitment of the teachers are obvious as is the value of home support. This film is not intended as an academic introduction to Reading Recovery. Its purpose is to outline the program and its aims and in so doing to demonstrate its outstanding success rate in rescuing children at the brink of failure.New Zealand National Film Unit Staff is the author of 'I Can Read!', published 0000 under ISBN 9780435085186 and ISBN 0435085182.