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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
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 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 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 '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 There are a small number of children who can sound out every word and make it all sound sensible, but who understand very little of what they have ‘read’. Theoretical conclusions and...
| Year published: 1992 | 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 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