Young learners benefit from Better Start Literacy Approach
30 June 2022
Explicit literacy teaching using the University of Canterbury’s Better Start Literacy Approach (BSLA) is making a big impact for new entrant and Year 1 students
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30 June 2022
Explicit literacy teaching using the University of Canterbury’s Better Start Literacy Approach (BSLA) is making a big impact for new entrant and Year 1 students
16 March 2022
Lyttelton-based author, poet and educator, Ben Brown (Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Koroki, Ngāti Paoa) discusses his first year in the role
17 March 2021
An online reading programme offered through a culturally responsive lens saw tamariki at a Golden Bay primary school improve by an average of 5 reading levels
25 February 2021
The Ministry of Education continually revises its literacy resources to ensure they are effective and reflect current research and the Ready to Read series
25 February 2021
The Better Start Literacy Approach is an integrated approach to teaching and assessing
5 November 2020
A tuakana programme to support oral language development in which tamariki mentor their younger peers
8 October 2020
Children and their families are benefitting from the Pasifika Early Literacy Project (PELP)–and some Auckland teachers are finding the programme has transformed
18 September 2020
The rebirth of an established programme aims to grow the next generation of literary critics in Aotearoa and get them talking about books.
29 June 2020
The Virtual Learning Network (VLN) Primary is well placed to support schools with remote learning across a range of subjects.
14 February 2020
A new way of recording progress should result in more informed teachers who can meet the needs of students better, says a group of maths teachers.