Era Mathematics was created to help students understand the language of mathematics and the concepts expressed in that language. By building an appropriate vocabulary before standardised testing and focusing on the meanings of mathematical words and symbols, students are better able to interpret test questions. This approach was created with professional feedback, to produce print…

The Reading Recovery Levels developed in New Zealand by Dr Marie Clay were developed for a specific pedagogy to help young children who were regarded as being ‘at risk’ in their reading development during junior primary school. Marie Clay’s levels are a complex system of very gradual increases in text complexity. At the early levels,…

Background It is common, and right, for teachers to question the Guided Reading levels that publishers assign to reading materials. However, it is also important that such questioning be well-informed.  This post is a description of the process used to arrive at the Era Guided Reading levels for the developmental literacy acquisition series. Its purpose…