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Browsing is the most common way of choosing what book to read. Coming closely behind is selecting an author, and selecting a subject. However, men put choosing the subject first, and browsing wins...
| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
To read well and widely is a central objective of formal education. People who cannot read are seen to be at a crippling disadvantage, personally, educationally, and vocationally. Public concern...
| Year published: 1979 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
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
Subscribe, or better still have the school subscribe, to one of the half dozen or more journals devoted to reading. But be aware: some journals specialise in one area of reading or specialise in...
| Year published: 1979 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Voluntary individual tuition for adults with acute problems in reading, writing and spelling is not new. It has always gone on quietly for a few people in a scattered and isolated way. What has...
| Year published: 1979 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Proponents of National Standards in New Zealand have argued that a key benefit of written reporting against New Zealand’s National Standards will be parents who are fully informed of their...
| Year published: 2015 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters 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 A description of the development of te arapū Māori—an alphabet naming system for Māori—and its uses in reversing language shift in kōhanga reo.
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio 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 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