to become independent readers. Marie Clay is now a Visiting Professor at Ohio State University, University of Illinois, Texas Women’s University, Oxford University, and the Institute of Education at the University of London. Reading Recovery is now in 10,664 schools in the United States alone (Clay, 1998). I was interested in Froebel because I too believe children learn through play and I wanted to research how it all got started. Kindergarten was designed to be a transition between home and school and some kindergarten teachers have forgotten that idea. I was interested in Marie Clay because I know a Reading Recovery teacher and the Reading Recovery teacher leader for TISD. They have told me so many wonderful things about the program I was interest in how it all got started. It is amazing to me that both kindergarten and Reading Recovery were started many years ago and they are still helping children learn all around the world. ...
