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Papers on the Core Academic Language Skills Instrument (CALS-I)

The Core Academic Language Skills Instrument (CALS-I) was designed by the Institute of Education Sciences of the United States Department of Education to ...

Pitfalls and possibilities in literacy research. A review of South African literacy studies, 2004-2018

This article evaluates South African research from two annotated bibliographies on reading in African languages at home language level (2004–2017) and South ...

Presentation to the Initial Teacher Education Hackathon on the ongoing work of the PrimTEd 2 EFAL and Maths Assessments in the B.Ed.

This is a set of draft study guides for students who are training to teach reading and writing in Primary Schools. They can be used as self-study material and ...

Putting reading in Northern Sotho on track in the early years: Changing resources, expectations and practices in a high poverty school

Groundbreaking study of a grade 1 reading intervention in a high poverty school over a four year period that found that improvements in reading in the African ...

Reading comprehension in high-poverty schools: how should it be taught and how well does it work

A description and appraisal of a reading comprehension programme that was aimed at Grade 6 learners and teachers and implemented in different ways in two ...

Reading in African languages - an Annotated Bibliography

This annotated bibliography was compiled by Professor Lilli Pretorius of UNISA as part of the Primary Teacher Education Project (PrimTEd). It gives a summary ...

SIRP was conceived by the Literacy Working Group of PrimTEd and is financially supported by the Nedbank Foundation

The Sesotho and IsiZulu Reading Project (SIRP) was conceived by the Literacy Working Group of PrimTEd. It is funded by the Nedbank Foundation. A description ...

Sesotho and IsiZulu Reading Project research report

This is a report on a research survey undertaken in 2019 to establish the present state of teaching Sesotho and isiZulu reading in a home language at the ...