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Jon Quach; Kate Scott; Georgia Dawson; Cecilia Sinclair; Laura Heim; Melissa Siew; Sharon Goldfeld – Australian Education Research Organisation Limited, 2024
Getting it Right from the Start (GIRFTS) is a research study that aims to implement a response to intervention (RTI) framework in early primary school (Foundation and Grade 1) to improve oral language and reading. RTI is a multi-tiered conceptual framework that supports student learning through delivery of high-quality classroom instruction, early…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Curriculum, Elementary Schools, Educational Change
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Bronwyn Reid O'Connor – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2024
A 7-month mathematics proficiency program was conducted in a primary Australian Indigenous community school. This paper focuses on outlining the specific methodologies employed to explore how students' mathematical proficiency changed throughout the implementation of the program in Years 2 to 4 (~ 7 to 9 years old). A mixed methods research design…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Mathematics Skills, Mathematics Education
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Miller, Jodie; Warren, Elizabeth; Armour, Danielle – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2020
This paper examines the outcomes of a 4-year implementation of a mathematics program (Representations, oral language and engagement in Mathematics: RoleM) for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island students' learning of mathematics across the first 4 years of primary school (Foundation--Year 3). It specifically aims to determine how…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Minority Group Students, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
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Moore, Wendy; Hammond, Lorraine; Fetherston, Tony – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2014
Vocabulary knowledge is an important predictor of literacy and broader academic outcomes, and children's literature is a rich source of sophisticated vocabulary. This study investigated the effect of providing instruction in word meanings as an adjunct to story-book read-aloud sessions in Grade One classrooms. The main intervention programme ran…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development, Reading Instruction, Semantics
Power, Jenny; Sawkins, Sue – 1992
A study traced the establishment and implementation of the Reading Recovery program on the North Coast of New South Wales (Australia) in 1991. Teachers at the 12 schools involved in the program, key personnel at the New South Wales Department of School Education and the Catholic Education Office, and the Reading Recovery Tutor were interviewed.…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Foreign Countries, Grade 1, High Risk Students
Belme, Jillian – 1980
This report describes the development, implementation and evaluation of an Australian follow-through kindergarten year one program for children who had participated in an individualized, experience-based preschool program. Follow-through program development focused on planning a program that offered experiences compatible with those offered at…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Coordination, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Students