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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 How much do your students read? Here is a quick way of finding out. Note: this TRT has been designed with New Zealand children in mind. An adaptation could be made for Australian readers, see the...
| Year published: 1995 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article How young children react to reading with CD-ROM story-books, the latest multimedia reading resource.
| Year published: 1995 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Regular racegoers, despite some low IQ scores, use, in that real world, extremely complex multivariate reasoning to pick winners. This research into IQ, expertise, and cognitive complexity has become...
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article There has been a lot of propaganda in favour of reading to children. All cultural and socio-economic groups studied in this research read a great deal with their children, but with different styles,...
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article This chapter from The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (a marvellous resource for schools) is reproduced by permission. It summarises physiology, experiments and conflicting theories, and explains...
| Year published: 1994 | 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 Does reading have to be carefully protected against the avalanche of Television? Is driving as much a threat to reading-for-enjoyment as TV? These, and other arguments in the 'literacy...
| Year published: 1991 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article As part of a larger study of the junior school, video recordings were made of new entrants busily adjusting to school learning. Here are fascinating insights into learning, interaction...
| Year published: 1991 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article