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Annotated list of readings on literacy teacher competencies and standards

This annotated bibliography was compiled as part of the PrimTEd project and comes from the Consolidated Literacy Work Group (CLWG), which focuses on developing ...

Full version of an article published in a condensed form by The Conversation on 26 February 2018 as "South Africa’s reading crisis is a cognitive catastrophe".

At a Loss for Words: How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers

Critique of whole language and balanced literacy approaches to teaching reading. Has a rich set of URLs to useful sources.

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 ...

Popular report on Stanford University research led by Bruce McCandliss that provides some of the first evidence that a specific teaching strategy for reading ...

Brain wave study shows how different teaching methods affect reading development

Report on a study done at the University of Stanford that shows how different literacy teaching methods affect reading development. Beginning readers who focus ...

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 ...

Consolidating research and comparing practice: What funders need to know for meaningful engagement with literacy in South Africa. Research Brief.

Excellent overview of research and practice in South African literacy education in schools. It also looks at current state and NGO programme and project ...