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Years 7–8 Asian students identified preferred follow-up activities to guided reading and a preference for reading fiction. Barriers to their engagement and achievement included compulsory reading...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Evidence of phonological-based word identification deficits among children with reading difficulties
Specific phonological-based deficits may hinder student’s reading progress. This study found evidence for the presence of these deficits among a sample of older pupils with reading difficulties. Some...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article The difficulties many students experience in learning to read frequently relate to a lack of strategies and confidence. Learning to read is readily accepted as one of the most complex behaviours we...
| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Computer programs are not a magic remedy for dyslexia. But they can be a very worthwhile teaching aid when you need many ways of reinforcing each teaching point. In this way the computer can add a...
| Year published: 1987 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Developmental Dyslexia is a specific learning disability characterised by difficulty in learning to read. Some dyslexics also may have difficulty in learning to write, to spell and, sometimes, to...
| Year published: 1987 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Theories of how we learn to read are important springs for research and as research data piles up their strengths and weaknesses are being revealed. Meanwhile, back in the classroom, trial and error...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article When Kirsty was brought to the attention of the Kelburn Visual Resource Centre in September 1979 she was a rather egocentric, tense, frustrated, unhappy and mixed up individual. She wanted to attend...
| Year published: 1985 | 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 Despite New Zealand students performing well in reading and literacy there is some concern that boys, particularly nine-year-olds, are not performing as well as could be expected.
| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article The Bullock Committee of Inquiry was set up by Mrs Margaret Thatcher, then Secretary of State for Education, in 1972. The establishment of the committee followed closely on the publication of the...
| Year published: 1976 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article