Australian Journal of Language and Literacy articles from October 2004

Australian Journal of Language and Literacy archives from October 2004

Editorial introduction.
October 1, 2004... We feel this issue of the Australian Journal of Language and Literacy is a very important one. The theme focuses on international concerns about literacy development in the middle and upper years of primary school and how classroom teachers...

Designing more effective teaching of comprehension in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms in New Zealand.
October 1, 2004... A central goal in New Zealand's National Literacy Strategy (Ministry of Education, 2002) is to understand and reduce disparities in achievement in the first four years of schooling. The focus has been on schools serving the communities with...

Book Club Plus: organising your literacy curriculum to bring students to high levels of literacy (1).
October 1, 2004... Sit in any staff room or teachers' lounge in the Australia or the United States and it's likely you'll hear teachers talking about the urgent needs of their students and the ever-increasing demands of the curriculum. Teaching today seems far...

Behind test scores: what struggling readers really need (1).(English learning students' evaluation survey)
October 1, 2004... Every year thousands of students take standardised tests and state reading tests, and every year thousands fail them. With the implementation of No Child Left Behind, which mandates testing all children from grades 3-8 every year, these numbers...

Developing an understanding of the pedagogy of writing in the middle years (age 8-11).
October 1, 2004... The National Literacy Strategy in primary (elementary) schools in England has given the teaching profession the opportunity to understand more about how children develop as writers and what role teachers play in guiding and shaping that...

Talking with Jess: Looking at how metalanguage assisted explanation writing in the middle years.
October 1, 2004... 21 May I: Can you tell me what sort of writing it is? Jess: It's an explanation ... I: What do you know about an explanation? Jess: Um, not much. But... um... you answer the questions of who, where, what, why and all of...