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What we have learned in the past decade: RTI’s approach to early grade literacy instruction

A paper describes the core elements that we have found to improve early grade literacy instruction and learner outcomes: the approach to teaching, the ...

Discusses the disputes internationally and in Australia on how reading is taught and raises the important issue of the lack of impact of research on teaching ...

A summary of a key chapter on literacy acquisition from Helena Abadzi’s well known book.

Short paper arguing that failure to learn reading is the primary reason for repetition in the early grades. Students cannot learn from books until they can ...

Reading in English as a First Additional Language. An annotated bibliography 2007-2021

This annotated bibliography was compiled by Claire Biesman-Simons and Kerryn Dixon with Elizabeth Pretorius as part of the Primary Teacher Education Project ...

This literature review records that learning to read reinforces and modifies certain fundamental abilities, such as verbal and visual memory, phonological ...

Why can’t a teacher be more like a scientist? Science, Pseudoscience and the Art of Teaching

The article provides a useful examination of the distinction between science and pseudoscience, outlines the characteristics of good educational research and ...

Study showing that literate people have a different functional organization of the human brain and that learning the visual representation of language (and the ...

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".

The ITERP project – a collaboration between the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), the Department of Basic Education (DBE), the Education ...