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This article summarises the main findings from a literature review exploring thinking skills in the early years (for children aged 3 to 7) and provides some practical recommendations for teachers...
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This article looks at ways of bridging the discontinuities young children experience between three settings: the home environment, the early childhood setting, and the new entrant classroom. It...
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The introduction this year of the draft key competencies (paralleling the five strands of Te Whāriki) brings an exciting new development to the early childhood as well as the primary and secondary...
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Evidence of phonological-based word identification deficits among children with reading difficulties
Specific phonological-based deficits may hinder student’s reading progress. This study found evidence for the presence of these deficits among a sample of older pupils with reading difficulties. Some...
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Road safety education for young children requires more than games, rhymes, and worksheets; it needs to be linked to everyday experiences of traffic and addressed "little and often". This article...
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With a focus on dispositions and affordances, Sally Peters considers some of the dominant theoretical ideas about transition, including maturational readiness, “filling the gaps”, scaffolding the...
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When young children move from one educational setting to another, it is important to understand the context of their prior experiences. Most children starting primary school have already experienced...
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Interviews with nine families about the transition to school for their special needs children showed that parents faced rejection and a multitude of dilemmas over access to resources, specialist...
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"Every honest caregiver and teacher knows that she/he has ... a relationship with at least one child now and then that includes quite a bit of conflict." This article looks at how teachers of young...
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Fascinating research showing the physical and emotional conditions that can establish a "good beginning of life". The role of early childhood services in promoting and sustaining the healthy...
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