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Motivating Literacy Learners in Today's World provides insights into a broad spectrum of children's literacy learning. Motivation is the key theme and the authors show how this can be achieved...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Book | Publisher: NZCER Press | Abstracts: motivating-literacy-learners-contents.pdf, | Abstracts: motivating-literacy-learners-introduction.pdf | Content type: Books
Would you like your students to be excited when they read a new word and keen to work out its meaning straight away? This book will turn them into word detectives, ready to tackle any new word they...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Book | Publisher: NZCER Press | Abstracts: teaching-reading-vocabulary-introduction.pdf | Content type: Books
Over the past 7 years I have dramatically changed my pedagogy in a quest to engage junior primary students in deep, authentic learning. This article concentrates on how I have come to support junior...
| Year published: 2018 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article, based on an 18-month study of effective writing instruction amongst Year 5 to 8 students, concludes that effective implementation of three dimensions of effective practice (learning...
| Year published: 2017 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2017_1_037.pdf | Content type: Set article
Q: Our school is in the process of targeting writing achievement for students in Years 1 through to 8. Students in my Years 5 and 6 class who were below or well below the writing standard at the end...
| Year published: 2013 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Juliet Twist of the New Zealand Council for Educational Research responds to a question from Juliet Pendleton of Pt Chevalier School: "Given that the move towards purpose-based teaching for writing...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
As National Standards come into force around the country, schools are starting to deal with implementing them in practice. This article explores some ideas about the implementation of National...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Explicit teaching and modelling are found to be vital among the strategies used by the teacher in this study to support her Year 5 and 6 students in developing self-regulating writing behaviours.
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2005_2_034.pdf | Content type: Set article
This research shows that focusing on peer and teacher talk about Year 5 and 6 students’ scripts creates significant increases in the quality of the students’ written language. Students’ initial...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
We know that children learn better when they are supported during new learning by someone who is more expert than they are. At a multi-cultural school in one of the five most “at risk” areas in...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article