Data from a ‘phonics check’ of new entrants is too incomplete to draw firm conclusions from, and word recognition is not the same as reading.
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Compared with today’s structured literacy and standardised testing, the 1953 reading syllabus was a remarkably non-prescriptive blueprint for both teachers and pupils.
Using structured literacy to teach te reo Māori is more about an educational ideology than about understanding the essence of New Zealand’s Indigenous language.
The new curriculum is grounded in research on how kids best learn to read. But it will take teachers time to learn which lessons work best for their classroom.
New Zealand’s bilingual children often lose their mother tongue by the time they leave school. But there are fears that use of English-based decoding in structured literacy will hasten this decline.
For many educators, structured literacy is a step in the right direction to improving New Zealand’s falling literacy rates. But educators need to remain adaptable as the science of reading evolves.
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