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This section provides ideas about the kinds of teaching approaches that support effective literacy practice. Within a cycle of inquiry, the approaches that teachers choose to implement will be based on using all available information about students to determine what they need to learn next.

  • Literacy in Secondary School Contexts aims to assist secondary teachers to incorporate subject area literacy teaching and learning into their programmes of work. The Ministry of Education wishes to acknowledge the lead writer Chris Thornley, the development team, and the subject advisers, teachers, and students who have contributed to the development of this resource.
  • A presentation by Sean Hawthorne and Rebecca Jesson about the key principles and practices of effective writing, the links between reading and writing, using models and success criteria, and giving feedback.
  • Rebecca Jesson considers ways to make more effective use of students’ rich experiences, including experiences of text, in order to promote writing.
  • A professional learning programme designed to help all secondary school subject teachers. It introduces teachers to effective literacy strategies that cater for the literacy learning and thinking needs of their students. It focuses on literacy and literacy strategies; teaching and learning; and professional learning that is sustained over time.

Vocabulary

Vocabulary lists

A Teaching Resource for Using the Picture Dictionary for New Learners of English (446 kB) :This teaching resource introduces over 1,000 words widely used in the context of everyday life in New Zealand. It is available from teacher resource centres and selected bookshops. 

Nation, I. S. P., ed. (1996). Vocabulary lists
This resource lists vocabulary in terms of its frequency. It includes the first 1,000, second 1,000, third 1,000, and the University word lists developed by Paul Nation.

The Internet Picture Dictionary: Online multilingual picture dictionary designed especially for ESOL students.

Lextutor word lists This site has a set of diagnostic vocabulary tests, and a corresponding set of vocabulary lists linked to concordance, dictionary, and quizzes to help you explore the nuances of form, meaning, and collocation of the words on these lists.

Academic vocabulary

NCEA vocabulary:

Glossary of key words: The language of examinations and assessment tasks - a glossary of key words (Board of Studies New South Wales).

The '1000 Word Little Language' resource was produced by the English Language Institute at Victoria University. While teaching at Northcote College, Mary Matthew developed the examples and exercises, particularly with the group of Karen students from Burma/Myanmar in mind.

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Readings 

Professional readings

  • Lexical exploitation of texts: Explains why students need to be trained to notice and learn chunks, rather than just individual words (British Council).
  • Vocabulary and autonomy: Activities to build students' abilities to explore, store and use vocabulary (British Council).



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