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Kiwi kids once led the world in reading – this 1950s primary school syllabus still has lessons for today

By Ruth Boyask, Director of LitPlus, AUT School of Education, Auckland University of Technology
John Milne, Senior Lecturer in Education, Auckland University of Technology

Compared with today’s structured literacy and standardised testing, the 1953 reading syllabus was a remarkably non-prescriptive blueprint for both teachers and pupils.

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