2011 National Reading Recovery & K-6 Classroom Literacy Conference

February 5-8  ●  Columbus, Ohio

Biography
 

Mary Fried
Mary Fried is an author and a trainer of teacher leaders in the Reading Recovery Center at The Ohio State University. 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 over twenty-five years. Mary is also a trainer for Literacy Collaborative and the Principal’s Academy for Leadership. She served as the editor and an author of children’s stories for the “Keep Book Program” at Ohio State. In recent years Mary and her colleagues at Ohio State have focused efforts and research on ‘Vintage’ sites in Ohio, teaching Literacy Lessons to Intervention Specialists and working with students and teachers in ESL programs.

Session Title

Transitions in Teaching and Learning at Higher Levels of Complexity

Description

Reading Recovery teachers sometimes lament, 'I can get them to level 12 but I can't get them out!' This session will focus on what may be some of the problems and how the teaching and learning may need to change in different parts of the lesson framework to achieve successful processing.