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Sesotho and IsiZulu Reading Project research report

This is a report on a research survey undertaken in 2019 to establish the present state of teaching Sesotho and isiZulu reading in a home language at the ...

Skilled reading in isiZulu: what can we learn from it?

Study of what the orthography of isiZulu requires of readers. As an agglutinative language with a conjoined writing system, isiZulu carries meaning not only in ...

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

Teach in first language, it’s key to success

Opinion piece by the Director of the Molteno Institute for Language and Literacy on why switching to second-language teaching too early places pupils at a ...

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading: Elementary

Essentially a curriculum framework for elementary school grades (up to Grade 4). Detailed and useful.

Four standards for reading specialists

For useful standards for reading specialists and subject advisors

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

Why the New Zealand National Literacy Strategy has failed and what can be done about it.

Responding to evidence from PIRLS 2011 and Reading Recovery monitoring data that New Zealand’s 1999 National Literacy Strategy had failed, the authors look at ...

Papers on the Core Academic Language Skills Instrument (CALS-I)

The Core Academic Language Skills Instrument (CALS-I) was designed by the Institute of Education Sciences of the United States Department of Education to ...

Using Funda Wande resources in teacher education programmes

Presentation made to a PrimTEd seminar in February 2020