Interventions – literacy

The Literacy and Numeracy Strategy emphasises that specific interventions for students with clearly identified needs beyond the classroom should be timely, appropriate, and backed up by the classroom programmes.

Here are some of the intervention programmes that are available to schools to assist them in their literacy programme. This list will be added to over time.

Reading Recovery New Zealand
Reading Recovery is an early intervention programme aimed at six-year-old children and is designed to reduce the number of children with literacy difficulties in schools.
http://www.readingrecovery.ac.nz

Reading Recovery Tutor Email Addresses
Visit this site to access the updated reading recovery centres, tutors, and email addresses.
http://www.readingrecovery.ac.nz/about/tut_emails.php

Pause Prompt Praise – Tatari Tautoko Tauawhi (PPP)
Pause Prompt Praise is a set of reading tutoring strategies to help older children experiencing difficulties in learning to read. These strategies help children use all sources of information available to them when they are reading from meaningful texts.

The strategies were first developed by Ted Glynn, Stuart McNaughton, Viviane Robinson, and Marianne Quinn in South Auckland homes in the mid 1970s with parents of older children who were making slow reading progress at school.

Twenty-five years on, Poutama Pounamu has produced a video showing how the Pause Prompt Praise procedures are carried out. This video has been developed to train other home and school communities how to use these procedures.

Screening duration of video: 26 minutes

Contact:
SE, Poutama Pounamu Ed. Research Centre
Block J, Welcome Bay School
309 Welcome Bay Road
Tauranga Moana

Phone +64 7 544 3581
Fax +64 7 544 0723
Email soli.weiss@minedu.govt.nz

Other references to Pause Prompt Praise – Tatari Tautoko Tauawhi (PPP):

Poutama Pounamu at
http://www.minedu.govt.nz/index.cfm?layout=document&documentid=7313&indexid=8

TATA – Oral language/phonological awareness in Māori immersion education
www.tki.org.nz/r/literacy_numeracy/ professional/tata_e.php

Hei Awhiawhi Tamariki ki te Panui Pukapuka (HPP)
Supporting children with storybook reading
HPP is a storybook reading programme that improves the literacy skills of early readers by concentrating first on their oral language skills.
Schools enlist the help of parents and community volunteers to read and talk about storybooks with children in one on one sessions. The parent tutors are trained in ways of enriching the students' oral language, thus supporting their reading development.
HPP is designed to help pupils achieve a reading age of seven, so that they can proceed with programmes such as Pause, Prompt and Praise (PPP). Children involved in programmes to date have ranged in age from four to ten years old.
HPP was piloted in seven low decile schools in Rotorua and Tauranga in 1999/2000. Nearly 500 pupils with a reading age of less than seven took part. Students were assessed at the beginning and end of the programme. The results achieved were impressive. The average Ready to Read shift in 10 weeks was 2,93 levels and in 20 weeks it was 5.37 Ready to Read levels.
Schools interested in accessing further information or training can approach the developers listed below. An article has also been published in the Education Gazette dated 15 November 1999.
A 13 minute video is also available to schools to provide an overview of the HPP programme. Please contact the HPP developers listed below.
The HPP developers comprise Kathryn Atvars, Annette Stock and Colleen Pinfold.
Kathryn Atvars is a former Assistant Principal, Visiting Teacher (SES) and Teacher Researcher (SES)
Ph 07 5440 119 fax 07 5440 692
email kathrynatvars@yahoo.co.nz
Annette Stock has been a teacher and Speech Language Therapist. She was previously a Service Leader with a Communication Team at SES Rotorua Ph 07 348 5145 email: stocka@ses.org.nz
Colleen Pinfold is a retired Assistant Principal and Resource Teacher of Reading.
Ph/fax 07 345 7151 email: pinfold@e3.co.nz