Browsing by Supervisor "Dymock, Susan"
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Adult dyslexia in New Zealand: The professional development needs of adult literacy educators
(University of Waikato, 2013)The needs of New Zealand adults with dyslexia are typically not sufficiently catered for in the tertiary education system (Rowan, 2010a; Tunmer & Greaney, 2010). In recent years efforts have been made to increase training ... -
The Effects of a Phonological Awareness and Alphabet Knowledge Intervention on Four Year Old Kindergarten Children
(University of Waikato, 2011)Phonological awareness and alphabet knowledge are two of the strongest predictors of reading acquisition. Many New Zealand children are entering school with low levels of emergent literacy skills, so an important area of ... -
Exemplary teachers' approaches to supporting vocabulary development during shared reading
(University of Waikato, 2014)An analysis of recent PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) data has shown that a group of New Zealand children are struggling to learn to read well. Vocabulary knowledge supports reading in a number of ... -
Primary school teachers' knowledge of phonemic awareness and its importance as a factor in learning to read
(University of Waikato, 2015)The purpose of this research was to gain an understanding of the knowledge that teachers in New Zealand primary school classrooms have in regard to phonemic awareness, their understanding of its importance as a factor in ... -
The Effects of a Shared Reading Intervention on the English Reading Skills of Year One Students in a Level Two Māori-medium Educational Context
(University of Waikato, 2014)One of the biggest challenges confronting literacy education in Aotearoa New Zealand is accommodating the differences in English reading-related variables at school entry to produce equitable outcomes in later reading ...
