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Three short articles:
"In the real world you can't say cereal when you mean shampoo" by Virginia Makins
"Reading through the little screen" by Andree Brooks...
| Year published: 1978 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Learning to read is a remarkable human achievement: a possibility realized by the invention of written language. Each new member of our culture is expected to make use of this invention. How do...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
To identify the specific needs of students with respect to literacy in the content areas, 21 students from Years 9-13 were interviewed about their views of themselves as readers and writers, and how...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Results of a study of literacy achievement data covering 1194 children turning six between January and August 2000, from 54 schools in the lower part of the North Island, show gender and ethnicity...
| Year published: 2001 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The reading debate seems to moving away from the entrenched positions of "us" versus "them" towards a continuum of process. Teachers in this research were asked to assess three different reading...
| Year published: 1998 | 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
When we look at recent research on reading acquisition, there has only been one exciting show to watch, and that has been the debate between Ken Goodman and Phil Gough. Ken Goodman's (1967) paper, '...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
If we distinguish what it is that good readers learn to do that poor readers do not learn we are half way to knowing what to
do to cure a lot of problems, for 'Failure in reading, virtually means...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article draws on the findings of a recent Ministry of Education commissioned evaluation of the CD ROM The Game and other stories. It focuses on possible reasons for the positive impact of...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In The Confusing World of High School Reading (Part 1): What the Teacher Doesn't See I reported the results of a recent study which showed that teaching a class of high school pupils can be deceptive...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article