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Laying firm foundations: getting reading right

Final Report to the ZENEX Foundation on poor student performance in Foundation Phase literacy and numeracy which includes policy recommendations

Learning to read and reading to learn

Succinct description of the data on early reading in South Africa with five policy recommendations

The DBE’s workbooks as a curriculum tool

A brief evaluation of the Department of Basic Education’s workbooks which found them a welcome intervention that was well aligned to the key CAPS content areas ...

Teaching Reading (and Writing) in the Foundation Phase: a concept note

Provides a detailed outline of a potential Foundation Phase teacher training course on how to teach reading. After providing some information on the state of ...

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 ...

The Salzburg Statement for a Multilingual World

This statement, made by the participants in the Salzburg Global Seminar’s session on Springboard for Talent: Language Learning and Integration in a Globalized ...

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 ...

Springboard for Talent: Language Learning and Integration in a Globalized World

The Salzburg Global Seminar convened the session Springboard for Talent: Language Learning and Integration in a Globalized World in Salzburg, Austria, in ...

A seven year study of the effects of synthetic phonics teaching on reading and spelling attainment

The report of a groundbreaking, seven-year research trial that was a powerful influence on the British government adopting systematic phonics as the best ...