Sylvia Ashton-Warner
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Not to be confused with Sylvia Townsend Warner.
For the American silent film actress, see Sylvia Ashton.
Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner MBE (17 December 1908 – 28 April 1984) was a New Zealand novelist, non-fiction writer, poet, pianist and world figure in the teaching of children. As an educator she developed and applied concepts of organic, child-based learning to the teaching of reading and writing, and vocabulary techniques, still used today.