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Creativity in poetry can be measured, and reliably. But encouraging creative poetry is a subtle business easily upset by asking the wrong questions, making inappropriate demands,...
| Year published: 1991 | 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
Keeping Ourselves Safe (KOS) is a 'personal safety' curriculum. Australian Freda Briggs, examined Australian, North American, and then a New Zealand programme for children aged five years...
| Year published: 1991 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Getting help from peers can make up for individual attention the teacher wishes she could give but just cannot manage. And giving help also improves the young tutor's work.
| Year published: 1991 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
As we write we construct knowledge, we manipulate information, we develop ourselves, and we get, as a bonus, the pleasure of authorship. Our writing develops and we use it for a wide range of...
| Year published: 1989 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In an effort to get students to think for themselves, to be involved in their learning and to use information sources, teachers often set project assignments. Sometimes this independent work is...
| Year published: 1989 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Most children in school learn the meanings of more than a thousand new words each year. Yet few teachers deliberately set out to drill their pupils systematically on selected word lists. Nor do...
| Year published: 1988 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
D o you agree with the following statements about poor farmers in India and Africa?
• They are poor through their own fault.
• They are poor because of the climate.
• They are poor because their...
| Year published: 1987 | 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
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