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

Research Brief Kelly Shiohira

Curriculum framework for literacy teaching in Initial Primary Teacher Education

The purpose of this Framework is to provide guidelines for the professional development of competent educators who can teach reading and writing in the various ...

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 ...

Ending the Reading Wars: Reading acquisition from novice to expert

An exceedingly thorough and comprehensive up to date review of the science of learning to read, spanning from children’s earliest alphabetic skills through to ...

English Language Arts and Reading Generalist EC–6 Standards

Twelve well thought out standards with details on What teachers know and on What teachers can do for each standard

Exploring relationships between Oral Reading Fluency and comprehension amongst ESL learners in South Africa

Conference presentation on Oral Reading Fluency and its correlation with comprehension among EFAL learners in South Africa

This article argues that we have lost the plot in South African reading education. To find it, we need to move beyond the predominant mode of reading as oral ...

Foundation and Intermediate Phase B.Ed. programmes at selected South African universities: languages and literacies components

To inform the work of the Primary Teacher Education Project the Literacy Working Group conducted an audit of language and literacy teacher education at ten ...