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This is a short introductory overview of the teaching of reading. It introduces some of the terminology and key concepts associated with literacy and the ...

Investigating the Comprehension Iceberg: Developing empirical benchmarks for early grade reading in agglutinating African language

Investigating the Comprehension Iceberg: Developing empirical benchmarks for early grade reading in agglutinating African languages

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 ...

Presentation by the Consolidated Literacy Working Group on language and literacy standards at a Stakeholder meeting held on 17 April 2019

Learning to read and reading to learn

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

Lifewide learning for early reading development

A large scale study of the influence of the home and community literacy environments in Asia and Africa that found that a modest but consistent relationship ...

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

A study showing that the brains of illiterates are consistently more right-lateralized than with literates and that, therefore, literacy influences the ...

My fish died and I flushed him down the toilet”: Children disrupt preservice teachers’ understandings of “appropriate” picture books for young children

A study of the relationship between pre-service teachers’ conceptions of children and of picture books in the context of little material on picture books in ...