Remembering Nea Stewart-Dore: Reading and writing the (school) world

Abstract

This article explores Nea Stewart-Dore's legacy, specifically the ERICA model for supporting reading in the content areas, developed with Bert Morris in 1984, and the contribution of this model to text-based approaches to language and literacy education adopted in Australia in recent decades. The authors report on the way that teachers at a regional secondary school developed a whole school approach to teaching reading and writing across the curriculum. Supported by academic partners, they applied a text-based pedagogy comprising strategies such as those advocated by Morris and Stewart-Dore (1984).