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Reading In NZ Schools: A survey of our theory and practice

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

Parents as Remedial Reading Tutors: A Report on the Work of the Mangere Home and School Project

When things go wrong with a child's social behaviour, teachers, psychologists and social workers frequently ask for the parents' help. When children are disruptive in class, when children...
| Year published: 1979 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Putting the answer before the question: A new way of understanding reading comprehension.

Most teachers assess reading comprehension by asking questions. These questions may be very broad, such as 'What was the story about?' or else very detailed, listed on a worksheet perhaps...
| Year published: 1979 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Legibility

Legibility research has been going on for two hundred years and it has discovered some useful pointers for anyone who is writing down words, or selecting words, to be put in front of anyone...
| Year published: 1979 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Assessing Attitudes to Reading: What Can Teachers Do?

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

What to Do While Waiting for the Reading Adviser to Arrive

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

The Decline in Jumping Standards

A fable
| Year published: 1979 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Adult Reading Assistance

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

Go and Look It Up Yourself

Discovery-learning and the information explosion both require that children have study skills. What exactly are these skills and how can they be taught?
| Year published: 1979 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

New Optimism About Pre-School Education

In Ypsilanti, Michigan a project has been underway since 1962. It now shows that significantly more of those who had pre-schooling have jobs, stay out of prison, and so on.
| Year published: 1979 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

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