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The need to identify students’ language, phonic and alphabet knowledge early on, and to systematically teach those skills in the early years.
Schools need more support from...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
From 2005–8 Mangere Bridge Kindergarten carried out a Centre of Innovation research project exploring the transition between early childhood education and school. Three teacher researchers, supported...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2009_3_04.pdf | Content type: Set article
This article looks at ways of bridging the discontinuities young children experience between three settings: the home environment, the early childhood setting, and the new entrant classroom. It...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
With a focus on dispositions and affordances, Sally Peters considers some of the dominant theoretical ideas about transition, including maturational readiness, “filling the gaps”, scaffolding the...
| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2003_3_15.pdf | Content type: Set article
When young children move from one educational setting to another, it is important to understand the context of their prior experiences. Most children starting primary school have already experienced...
| Year published: 2001 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The requirement to report school entry assessment data to the Ministry of Education makes SEA a high stakes activity. But how well is it working? In this study, all teachers raised concerns such as...
| Year published: 2000 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Interviews with nine families about the transition to school for their special needs children showed that parents faced rejection and a multitude of dilemmas over access to resources, specialist...
| Year published: 2000 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A fascinating insight into how children learn "to do school". This study identifies the ways in which children make use of peer modelling and assistance as they first adjust to the classroom climate...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In a child's eyes starting school is a rite of passage, associated with increased status. Children even link physical growth with this enhanced status - one boy said, 'I bet I grow a couple of inches...
| Year published: 1987 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Starting school is a major life event for all involved: children, families, preschool educators, and school staff. All groups engage in a range of activities designed to make the time of transition...
| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article