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The family is one of the sites for literacy learning and that families vary both between themselves and according to culture. This article provides some suggestions with the aim of encouraging a...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
One of the key elements in reciprocal teaching is getting the children to 'be the teacher' for a while. This research found great gains in reading for the children who tried the...
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article reports from a Teacher-led Innovation Fund project that investigated connecting practices and resources for mathematical learning between a kindergarten and the first year of school....
| Year published: 2022 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
| Year published: 2022 | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article, based on a 2-year study of working strategically with Years 5 to 8 priority learners, concludes that what is effective writing instruction for all students is particularly effective for...
| Year published: 2022 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Teachers who understand that spelling is a complex developmental process can help students acquire spelling competency. Initially, the teacher must recognize five stages of spelling development. Once...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: Set1983_2_010.pdf | Content type: Set article
Among the most serious obstacles to the growth of participatory methods of teaching are columns of desks in classrooms. While pupils are forced to sit looking at the backs of their fellows, with the...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Three volunteer teachers arranged home interviews for each pupil in their class, offering parents the choice of an interview at home or at school. As more than half the parents opted for a home visit...
| Year published: 1985 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
An interesting trail of different kinds of research led Geraldine McDonald to the study of how junior school children learn school-ways-of-thinking. Now a re-think of testing...
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Asking very young children to draw can reveal a great deal about how they are coping with school, what they are learning and what they regard as important. Better teaching can follow.
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article