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During 1979-80 we were invited to work in three middle schools (with 8- to 13-year-olds) to clarify what counts as progress in writing. We decided to select, with the teachers, three or four children...
| Year published: 1986 | 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
In New Zealand it is estimated that non-Maori girls now reach puberty, on average, at 12 years 6 months and Maori girls at 12.0. In Australia the age is between 12.4 and 13.0. That means that most...
| Year published: 1985 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
As soon as we consider teaching about Race Relations we strike a dilemma: how to promote desirable values and still let the children learn for themselves. Trying to persuade children to believe what...
| Year published: 1985 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
How is the teacher to convert these private worries into informed and constructive thinking? It seems to be assumed that the two crucial components of education on nuclear issues are to increase...
| Year published: 1985 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A flowchart can describe what happens when we set out to copy a sentence; the factors and skills which operate during this task. The model is not about 'meaning' or 'word choice' or 'self-expression...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Drugs are a problem. Drug education is a problem. Drug users are a problem. But now, thanks to the Londonbased Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence (lSDD), the in-service training and education...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Several years ago I compiled a 'starter' list of books that I had read to children and we had enjoyed together. This year, conscious that many exciting childrens' books have been published recently,...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Most teachers use television incidentally in their lessons, if only to reinforce or illustrate some point. Many will have noticed a reluctance, almost an hostility, by the children towards discussing...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
I wanted to know what beginning readers thought about the full stop , and so, with Gay Way Red Book 5 open at the ready, and at the risk of sounding like a less than popular quiz show, I asked 15...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article