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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 do New Zealand teachers expect of their pupils? Are their expectations culturally stereotyped? Do they treat some pupils differently because of their stereotypes?
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Despite the excellent research of Janet Emig, Donald Graves and others, the writing process itself is still largely a mystery.
We know that it is a very complex process requiring the mastery of...
| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Although left-handed children are allowed to use their dominant hands by teachers and parents nowadays, very little in terms of guidance is available. Here are some practical suggestions for teachers...
| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
What is good thinking? Creative thinking is always a pleasure. Critical thinking tends to get a bad press, but it is just as necessary. Here it is carefully analysed, and research adds insights on...
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Teachers can successfully encourage learners to be better thinkers. A research study of techniques for teaching metacognition (thinking about thinking) to 8-year-olds leads to conclusions about how...
| Year published: 1994 | 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
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
How you assess partly depends on your notion of what writing is for. But the accuracy of the assessment depends on clearly distinguishing different characteristics, from planning to...
| Year published: 1991 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Australian and New Zealand research on poetry teaching is very scarce. Robin McConnell extends it by asking poets as well as teachers for their comments, and winds up with many clear...
| Year published: 1991 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article