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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 ...

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 ...

Foundation Phase Matters: Language and Learning in South African Rural Classrooms

The study looks at teacher instructional practice, learner performance outcomes, and intervention process design. It was designed to help develop an ...

Hard Words: Why aren't kids being taught to read?

Popular article from the United States of America that argues that, thought scientific research has shown how children learn to read and how they should be ...

Article noting the contradiction between empirical research evidence backed up by the constitutional support for mother-tongue instruction with the current ...

Research findings in reading instruction are settled science

A brief survey of North American teaching of reading research.

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 ...

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 ...

Knowledge and Practice Standards for primary teacher education graduates: language and literacy

These draft standards were prepared by members of the Consolidated Literacy Working Group of the Primary Teacher Education Project (PrimTEd). These have been ...

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.