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The national monitoring reading and speaking surveys sought information from students about their curriculum preferences and their perceptions of their achievement. Students were also asked about their enjoyment of and involvement in reading and speaking activities, within school and beyond. The surveys were administered in a session which included group and independent tasks, with a teacher reading the survey to year 4 students and available to help with writing. There were four questions that invited students to select up to three choices from lists of 8 to 10 options, two questions that asked for very brief written responses, and 21 questions in a 4 or 5 option rating format, with students circling the option they preferred.

Reading at school
The students were presented with a list of eight reading activities and asked which they liked doing most at school. They were invited to tick up to three activities. The responses are shown below. Students in Mäori immersion programmes were more positive about reading with a buddy or partner, and less positive about looking at or browsing through books.

PREFERRED READING
ACTIVITIES AT SCHOOL

% responses
GEd MI
silent reading 52 51
written work 49 53
listening to the teacher reading 41 40
reading with a buddy or partner 41 51
looking at or browsing through books 31 20
talking about books 19 22
reading aloud 17 24
reading with the teacher 12 9
A good reader
Another question asked the students to select up to three “important things a person needs to do to be a good reader”. They were given 10 approaches to choose from. The responses are shown right.

Compared to Mäori students in general education, students in Mäori immersion programmes placed much greater emphasis on learning hard words and listening to the teacher, and less emphasis on concentrating hard, enjoying reading books, and choosing the right book.
IMPORTANT THINGS FOR A
GOOD READER AT SCHOOL

% responses
GEd MI
enjoy reading books 51 24
read a lot 40 35
concentrate hard 40 11
go back and try again 38 22
sound out words 25 38
choose the right book 33 16
learn hard words 20 53
think about what I read 15 35
practise doing hard things 12 22
listen to the teacher 9 38
Student Reading
Reading in own time
In response to a list of seven types of reading material, students indicated up to three which they liked reading in their own time. The responses are shown right.
Because of a lower response rate from students in Mäori immersion programmes, it is difficult to compare the two distributions.

PREFERRED READING
MATERIAL IN OWN TIME

% responses
GEd MI
story books (fiction) 41 26
magazines 16 15
books about real things and people (non-fiction) 13 11
comics 10 4
no response 9 27
other 5 4
junk mail 4 0
poetry 1 9
newspapers 1 4
Survey table
Responses to the 21 rating items (below) revealed a number of interesting differences. Compared to Mäori students in general education, students in Mäori immersion programmes were more positive about reading at school, getting a book for a present, and looking at books in a bookshop, but less positive about their teacher reading a story out loud and about talking to their whole class. They reported fewer opportunities to talk to their whole class or to others in their class.
READING AND SPEAKING SURVEY
Percentages — Mäori students in general education    Mäori Immersion students
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1. How much do you like reading at school?  28  41 56  52 8  7  0   
2. How good are you at reading? 28  38 56  51 13  11 3  0
3. How good does your teacher think you are at reading? 24  21 32  49 8  2 3  2 33  26
4. How good does your Mum or Dad think you are at reading? 47  53 24  22 7  5 5  0 17  20
  heaps quite a lot sometimes never  
5. Does your teacher tell you what you are good at in reading? 11  7 20  53 53  40 16  0    
6. Does your teacher tell you what you need to improve at in reading? 15  18 17  43 48  37 20  2
7. How often do you read to others at school? 3  9 19  27 55  40 23  24
           
8. How much do you like reading in your own time - not at school? 23  23 39  43 23  25 15  9             
9. How do you feel about getting a book for a present? 30  56 41  31 22  13 7  0
10. How do you feel about looking at books in a bookshop? 41  56 37  24 19  16 3  4
11. How do you feel about going to a library? 42  50 33  25 18  14 7  11
12. How do you feel about the stories/books you read as part of your reading programme at school? 30  22 39  49 21  22 11  7
13. How do you feel when your teacher reads a story out loud? 50  29 28  44 17  20 5  7
14. How do you feel about how well you read? 47  20 37 64 12  14 4  2
15. How do you feel about reading in a group in the classroom? 32  29 42  35 15  27 11  9
16. How do you feel when you are asked to read out loud to the teacher? 24  33 32  31 29  11 15  24
17. How do you feel when asked to read out loud to the class? 15  18 29  33 27  22 29  27
18. How much do you like talkiing to the whole class? 36  11 25  47 28  24 11  18
19. How much do you like talking to a group in your class? 55  44 29  38 15  14 1  4
  heaps quite a lot sometimes never  
20. How often do you get to talk to your whole class? 15  0 24  27 52  64 9  9   
21. How often do you get to talk to others in your class? 41 18 37  34 22  48 0   0

Student’s preferred activities in their own time
The students were presented with a list of nine activities that they might do in their spare time, and asked to tick up to three activities that they most liked to do. The responses are shown below, in order of popularity for year 4 students.

Compared to Mäori students in general education, students in Mäori immersion programmes were a little more inclined to choose to play video or computer games, and substantially less inclined to choose music as an activity. Reading was the sixth most popular activity for both groups, ahead of just two other options.

PREFERRED ACTIVITY IN OWN TIME

% responses
GEd MI
play games or sports 46 49
watch TV 40 44
play with friends 38 42
play video or computer games 32 44
talk on telephone with friends 32 40
music 30 15
read 29 22
do art 22 29
make things 8 2
Lanugage mainly spoken at home
Students were also asked “Which language do you mainly speak at home?”.The responses were placed in categories and percentages are tabulated (right).

Predictably, students in Mäori immersion programmes were substantially more likely to have Mäori be the main language spoken at home. However, almost two thirds of the Mäori immersion students did not have the learning synergy of predominant home use of the language they were using in school.

LANGUAGE MAINLY SPOKEN AT HOME

% responses
GEd MI
English 89 65
Mäori 10 35
Samoan 0 1
Other Pacific language 1 1
Asian language 0 3
Other language 0 1
Mäori and English equally 0 2
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