Brooker’s two tries – scored either side of the halftime break – were two of the home side’s best on a day Canterbury never trailed. She beat four defenders on the way to the line for her first, before wriggling out of another after collecting a chip kick to bag her second.
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Canterbury wing Isabella Waterman scored a peach of a try in her team’s big win against Counties Manukau in Christchurch on Saturday. However, wing Isabella Waterman’s try after the halftime hooter – when she got on the end of a smooth TeRauoriwa Gapper cross-field kick and carried a defender over the line – was probably the pick of the lot.
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School teachers say they are trained to teach children to read using a “balanced literacy” or “whole language” approach, which fails some children. Most students started school knowing “about five sounds”, and structured literacy helped them engage with letters and words, before being expected to read a book, Anderson said. Like most primary schools nationwide, the school used an approach known as balanced literacy as its main way of teaching children to read, using Ministry of Education provided “Ready to Read” books. A “wave” of opinion was coming from teachers that balanced literacy wasn’t working for enough children, said Alborn.