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Gillon, Gail; McNeill, Brigid; Scott, Amy; Gath, Megan; Westerveld, Marleen – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2023
This study examined the validity of data collected from a novel online story retell task. The task was specifically designed for use by junior school teachers with the support of speech-language therapists or literacy specialists. The assessment task was developed to monitor children's oral language progress in their first year at school as part…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Story Telling, Validity, Speech Language Pathology
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Locke, Terry; Tailby, Sam – Waikato Journal of Education, 2016
This article reports on what happened when a mathematics teacher at an urban, New Zealand secondary school trialled the use of oral and written language tasks with his Year 9 mathematics students (two classes) as a way of developing their understanding of algebra. Over a period of five weeks, he trialled the use of a range of activities that were…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Teachers, Secondary School Students, Oral Language
Fletcher, J., Ed.; Parkhill, F., Ed.; Gillon, G., Ed. – NZCER Press, 2010
"Motivating Literacy Learners in Today's World" provides insights into a broad spectrum of children's literacy learning. Motivation is the key theme and the authors show how this can be achieved through reading for pleasure; in writing activities at a number of levels; and through oral language development. Chapters include: (1)…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Literacy Education, Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction