Mary Fried, Reading Recovery Trainer, The Ohio State University

Comprehension: What Do We Understand?

Session Description

Clay (2001) states, ‘Comprehension is involved in all reading and writing of continuous text, even a one sentence message.’  Explore teaching and learning actions for ensuring and advancing comprehension, which are embedded in Reading Recovery procedures and teaching conversations during Reading Recovery lessons.

Biography

Mary Fried is currently a trainer at the Ohio State University Reading Recovery Center. She was trained by Marie Clay and Barbara Watson during the original 1984-1985 pilot study of Reading Recovery in the USA and has been actively engaged teaching, presenting, conducting research, and writing about Reading Recovery for twenty-five years.

In recent years she and her colleagues at Ohio State have had focused efforts and research on ‘Vintage’ sites in Ohio, teaching Literacy Lessons to Intervention Specialists and working with students and teachers in ESL programs. These studies have offered new learning opportunities for working with experienced teacher leaders, Reading Recovery teachers, and other educators. Her teaching of children in Reading Recovery for the last nine years has been immersed with teaching English language learners. Children with a wide range of language and cultural backgrounds have worked successfully with their English only teacher to learn to read, write, understand and speak using English and Mary Fried has learned a great deal about teaching and the power of diversity from all of them!