Australian Journal of Language and Literacy articles from October 1998

Australian Journal of Language and Literacy archives from October 1998

Being explicit about literacy instruction.(explicit teaching of literacy)
October 1, 1998... This article describes the characteristics of lessons identified as having the potential to provide explicit information to students about the cognitive aspects of literacy tasks. The lessons were identified in a fine-grained study of the...

Initial reading schemes and their high frequency words.
October 1, 1998... The authors investigated three initial reading schemes, PM Library, Story Box, and the Young Australia Series, to identify their high frequency words from a bank of almost 10,000 words. In this article they discuss these words and the need for...

`Show me a child before s/he is ...'? Prior-to-preschool literacy experiences of children in Australia.
October 1, 1998... Children's prior-to-preschool home lives are the focus of this article. Carried out as a part of DEETYA Children's Literacy Project (Hill et al., 1998), the research characterises the differences between the prior-to-preschool literacy...

Reading literacy test data: benchmarking success?
October 1, 1998... This article draws together literacy achievement data from across Australia, exposing demographic trends which, the authors argue, should bring into question current school-based literacy, practices. Alloway and Gilbert attempt to show how...

COLT -- Communicative Orientation of Language Teaching Observation Scheme: Coding Conventions and Applications.(Review)
October 1, 1998... COLT -- Communicative Orientation of Language Teaching Observation Scheme: Coding Conventions and Applications Nina Spada and Maria Frohlich NCELTR, Macquarie University, Sydney 1995, 168pp., $49.95 The COLT scheme has been in use since...

Effective professional development in early literacy programs.(Review)
October 1, 1998... In this article the authors report on the evaluation of a professional development program aimed at facilitating change in the learning and teaching of early literacy. Elements underpinning effective professional development programs are...