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Treat Yourself to a Reading and Writing Explosion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

G.H. Edwards
G.H. Edwards*
Affiliation:
Yarrabah S.S. Via Cairns
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Engaged as we are in the essential task of assisting Aboriginal children to decode and encode a language which presents many problems to them, it behoves us to strive for the one aspect that many teachers – particularly those new to the field of Aboriginal education, and those charged with the teaching of reading to our school beginners – appear to miss. The reference, of course, is to relevancy.

How many of us, in retrospect, have been guilty of peddling irrelevant or “foreign” reading materials during our careers? Are we still guilty? Do your children readily relate to the books you present for their use? If not, then the following thoughts and suggestions may have some value in your situation, be it one where a tribal language is still the main means of communication, one where a bi-lingual program is in force, or where English (or a non-standard form of it) is the main communication medium.

Type
Across Australia …… From Teacher to Teacher
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , June 1976 , pp. 33 - 38
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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References

page no 38 note 1. Barker, F.H.: Black and white photography in a black and white school. The Aboriginal Child at School, Vol. 2 No. 3, June 1974Google Scholar.