French Development in Canada

Canada is a nation of two official languages, English and French. Therefore, it was critical that Reading Recovery be made available to Francophone and French immersion students. In 1995, Marie Clay granted the province of Nova Scotia, in partnership with the Canadian Institute of Reading Recovery (CIRR), the right to redevelop Reading Recovery training materials in French.

The first phase was the adaptation of An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement, which resulted in the publication of Le sondage d’observation en lecture-écriture. In 2000–2001, Reading Recovery was first offered to teachers in a French school board in Nova Scotia. By 2006, Intervention préventive en lecture-écriture (Reading Recovery in French) was offered to students in school boards in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Ontario. In 2007, it was offered in some French immersion schools and was expanded to include Manitoba and more recently in Alberta and British Columbia. The most-recent publications by Marie Clay, Literacy Lessons Designed for Individuals Part One and Part Two, are currently being translated into French.