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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
What happens to the children who just miss out on selection for the early intervention programme, Reading Recovery?
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
How television can help with reading instruction.
| Year published: 1996 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
An overview of the issues in the whole language versus phonics debate.
| Year published: 1996 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Researchers and teachers both overseas and in New Zealand are all but unanimous that children should be encouraged to read during and outside school hours. It would appear that New Zealand primary...
| Year published: 1995 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
How much do your students read? Here is a quick way of finding out. Note: this TRT has been designed with New Zealand children in mind. An adaptation could be made for Australian readers, see the...
| Year published: 1995 | 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
There are a small number of children who can sound out every word and make it all sound sensible, but who understand very little of what they have ‘read’. Theoretical conclusions and...
| Year published: 1992 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
As part of a larger study of the junior school, video recordings were made of new entrants busily adjusting to school learning. Here are fascinating insights into learning, interaction...
| Year published: 1991 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Most children in school learn the meanings of more than a thousand new words each year. Yet few teachers deliberately set out to drill their pupils systematically on selected word lists. Nor do...
| Year published: 1988 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article