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Schaughency, Elizabeth; McLennan, Kathryn M.; McDowall, Philippa S. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2015
A New Zealand (NZ) version of Word Identification Fluency (NZWIF) was administered to 120 children in their second school year at the beginning, middle, and end of the year, along with a curriculum-based measure of oral passage reading fluency at mid- and end-year. Outcome measures included standardized and high-stakes school-used indicators of…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Reading Fluency, Correlation, Foreign Countries
Elley, Warwick B. – 1988
The prevailing assumption underlying practice in the classroom is that children acquire most of their new words from context during silent reading. The trouble with learning from silent reading is that many pupils do not read widely or quickly enough. Reading aloud to children will, however, allow them to participate in activity that they all can…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Oral Reading, Reading Research
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Goldenberg, Claude – Language Arts, 1991
Focuses on the issues of skills in reading instruction in New Zealand. Feels that instruction can maintain a reciprocal and mutually supportive relationship between teaching word-level strategies and comprehension strategies. (MG)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Oral Reading, Reading Instruction