All Stories

  1. Meeting the Needs and Potentials of High-Ability, High-Performing, and Gifted Students via Differentiation

    Article • Gifted Child Quarterly, January 2024, SAGE Publications

    Maria Nicholas

  2. Guided to Guider: the “∼ed” and “∼er” roles in professional development materials for guided Reading

    Article • Social Semiotics, September 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Nicholas

  3. The shared reading of digital storybooks with young children: Parents’ perspectives

    Article • Research Papers in Education, April 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Nicholas

  4. Cross-sector collaborations via Facebook: teachers’ use of social media

    Article • The Australian Educational Researcher, April 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Nicholas

  5. Transition into school-aged care – how do services support children starting school?

    Article • European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, March 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Nicholas

  6. Literacy learning in infant-toddler programs: Practice architectures as a lens for examining educator pedagogy

    Article • Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, July 2022, SAGE Publications

    Maria Nicholas

  7. Examining the paradoxes children experience in language and literacy learning

    Article • The Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, June 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Nicholas

  8. The Barometer of Agency: Reconceptualising the ‘Guided Reading’ Teaching Approach

    Article • Education Sciences, May 2022, MDPI AG

    Maria Nicholas

  9. Guided reading – Working within a child's zone of proximal development

    Article • Learning Culture and Social Interaction, September 2021, Elsevier

    Maria Nicholas

  10. Cross-sector early years teacher collaboration: using professional learning workshops as boundary objects for professional boundary crossing

    Article • European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, August 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Nicholas

  11. Child-Centred Teaching: Helping Each Child to Reach Their Full Potential

    Article • Education Sciences, June 2021, MDPI AG

    Maria Nicholas

  12. Learning to read: where should early childhood educators begin?

    Article • Literacy, August 2020, Wiley

    Maria Nicholas

  13. School readiness – what does this mean? Educators’ perceptions using a cross sector comparison

    Article • International Journal of Early Years Education, February 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Nicholas

  14. Mothers’ views on shared reading with their two-year olds using printed and electronic texts: Purpose, confidence and practice

    Article • Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, August 2018, SAGE Publications

    Maria Nicholas

  15. Digital Literacies in Middle Years Classrooms: Teachers’ Perspectives and Self-reported Practices

    Article • The International Journal of Learning Annual Review, January 2018, Common Ground Publishing

    Maria Nicholas

  16. Using Digital Devices in a First Year Classroom: A Focus on the Design and Use of Phonics Software Applications

    Article • Journal of Education and Learning, December 2016, Canadian Center of Science and Education

    Maria Nicholas

  17. Using Multiple Videoed Events to generate data

    Article • International Journal of Research & Method in Education, November 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Nicholas

  18. Insights into casual relief teaching: casual relief teachers’ perceptions of their knowledge and skills

    Article • Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, April 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Nicholas

  19. Teacher Practice: A Spotlight on the Use of Feedback and Conferencing in the First Year of Schooling

    Article • Australian Journal of Teacher Education, January 2014, Edith Cowan University

    Maria Nicholas