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These Initial Vocabularies for Reading have been developed by Brian Thompson of the Education Department of Victoria University of Wellington to help teachers in primary schools.
| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Children are not failures in the normative sense when they arrive at school but the process of labelling a child as a failure begins early in his school career. The early school years a:re...
| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Six parents of Year 4–6 students at a rural primary school were interviewed to explore their perspectives on the mathematics education of their children.
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article One of the key elements in reciprocal teaching is getting the children to 'be the teacher' for a while. This research found great gains in reading for the children who tried the...
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article 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 Asking very young children to draw can reveal a great deal about how they are coping with school, what they are learning and what they regard as important. Better teaching can follow.
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article This article outlines the implications for teachers of the findings from a comparative study of students’ editing skills and processes when using word processors and pencils to write. An overview of...
| Year published: 2001 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Accessing children’s understandings through traditional methods of assessment can be problematic for teachers. This article explores how the use of drawings by a group of Year 5 children to answer...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article This small study provides some evidence that even at a young age, students are able to begin developing self-regulation skills in the context of science investigations.
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2005_2_038.pdf | Content type: Set article The skills of oral narrative and phonological awareness are seen as precursors and predictors of reading development. In this study of bilingual Māori primary school students, Fleur Harris found that...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2009_3_11.pdf | Content type: Set article