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Most children begin school expecting to learn to read. If this expectation is not met, if they have problems with reading, they may develop a dislike for reading, or just a hopeless feeling about...
| Year published: 1979 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
'The English cannot spell because they have nothing to spell it with but an old foreign alphabet of which only the consonants - and not all of them - have any agreed speech value.' So...
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
New Zealanders, self-satisfied, pat themselves on the back for their excellent teaching of reading. One of the long-time reading gurus, Frank Smith, has written this thoughtful, if...
| Year published: 1992 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
As we write we construct knowledge, we manipulate information, we develop ourselves, and we get, as a bonus, the pleasure of authorship. Our writing develops and we use it for a wide range of...
| Year published: 1989 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
D o you agree with the following statements about poor farmers in India and Africa?
• They are poor through their own fault.
• They are poor because of the climate.
• They are poor because their...
| Year published: 1987 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
It is generally the case that teachers, instructing young children to read single words, present these sight-words in the company of pictures representing the same objects. For example, when teaching...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Children know a great deal of mathematics before they come to school. They have a variety of ways of interpreting and solving problems about quantities, but of course there are wide differences in...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Decoding has always been controversial. Rather than an ally, it has often been seen as the enemy of comprehension. The problem is that poor comprehenders are usually poor decoders as welt which...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Australian and New Zealand research on poetry teaching is very scarce. Robin McConnell extends it by asking poets as well as teachers for their comments, and winds up with many clear...
| Year published: 1991 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Nairn, K., Higgins, J., & Sligo, J. (2012). Children of Rogernomics: A neoliberal generation leaves school. Otago University Press. Reviewed by Jennifer Tatebe
Kalantzis, M., & Cope,...
| Year published: 2013 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article