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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
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
How television can help with reading instruction.
| Year published: 1996 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
An overview of the issues in the whole language versus phonics debate.
| Year published: 1996 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Researchers and teachers both overseas and in New Zealand are all but unanimous that children should be encouraged to read during and outside school hours. It would appear that New Zealand primary...
| Year published: 1995 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article