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Teachers who understand that spelling is a complex developmental process can help students acquire spelling competency. Initially, the teacher must recognize five stages of spelling development. Once...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: Set1983_2_010.pdf | Content type: Set article
Children know a great deal of mathematics before they come to school. They have a variety of ways of interpreting and solving problems about quantities, but of course there are wide differences in...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In The Confusing World of High School Reading (Part 1): What the Teacher Doesn't See I reported the results of a recent study which showed that teaching a class of high school pupils can be deceptive...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Decoding has always been controversial. Rather than an ally, it has often been seen as the enemy of comprehension. The problem is that poor comprehenders are usually poor decoders as welt which...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The study of children's mathematical behaviour goes back many years. Piaget in the 1930s used clinical interviews to unearth children's ideas about number. Earlier than this, Brueckner had used tests...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Helping children become less prejudiced. That is one of our airns as teachers. In Social Studies prejudice often shows up as, 'My
culture, my ways, are right and other cultures, other ways not like...
| Year published: 1987 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
RECORDS, tapes and radio are central to adolescent experience and a key part is MTV - musical television - and its staple, the music video clip. 'MTV' itself is a 24-hour, non-stop, commercial cable...
| Year published: 1989 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In 1984, in one hundred Form 2 (Year 7) classes and in one hundred Form 5 (Year 10) classes throughout New Zealand, six thousand children wrote three pieces each. Their work was collected and the 18,...
| Year published: 1989 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Sex education in schools has been a topic of considerable controversy for many decades. Some groups see it as the preserve of the family; others believe that the high number of sex-related casualties...
| Year published: 1987 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Australia had the idea first, New Zealand has seen it take off: child sized equipment and modified rules develop skills and give great fun.
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article