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This glossary was compiled by members of the Consolidated Literacy Working Group in the course of their working on various projects of the group. It has no ...

Accessing Foundation Phase literacy resources in all our official languages, focusing on African languages

Presentation made to a PrimTEd seminar in February 2020 that outlines the Molteno Institute’s work on graded readers basic on the phonics of South African ...

Achieving the Vision. The Final Research Report of the West Dunbartonshire Literacy Initiative

Final report of a successful project, begun in 1997, to effectively eradicate functional illiteracy among young people through a multiple-component ...

Back to basics: comparing the orthographic, phonic and grammatical features of English and African languages to improve literacy teaching

Presentation made to a PrimTEd seminar in February 2020 illustrating some of the differences and similarities in the orthography, phonics and syntax between ...

Bringing literacy home. Family Literacy Conference Proceedings. 19 - 21 September 2005, Pietermaritzburg

Proceedings on this first national conference on family literacy in South Africa has some excellent papers that look into the near invisible world of family ...

Changing how literacy is taught: evidence on synthetic phonics

This is an evaluation study of the national change in education policy in England that saw a refocusing of teaching of reading around synthetic phonics. This ...

CITE-ITEL

CITE-TEL is a web-based resource, the Critical, Interactive, Transparent & Evolving literature review in Initial Teacher Education in Literacy, hosted by the ...

This study guide is about decoding – about developing the ability to transform written text into spoken words in order to gain access to the meaning of a text. ...

Dialects matter: The influence of dialects and code-switching on the literacy and numeracy achievements of isiXhosa Grade 1 learners in the Western Cap

A study of the influence of different dialects and code-switching on the literacy and numeracy achievements of isiXhosa Grade 1 learners in the Western Cape ...

Early Grade Reading Study (EGRS)

This research study sought to examine the results of three interventions to improve teachers’ instructional practice – one with block training twice a year ...