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Working toward a more literate world: Reading intervention commentary

A commentary on the evidence coming out of evidence-based practices in early reading instruction and intervention in low- and middle income countries In ...

A major study conducted in the late 1980s into the nature of the language and learning difficulties experienced by Grade Five learners when the medium of ...

Changing how literacy is taught: evidence on synthetic phonics

This is an evaluation study of the national change in education policy in England that saw a refocusing of teaching of reading around synthetic phonics. This ...

Achieving the Vision. The Final Research Report of the West Dunbartonshire Literacy Initiative

Final report of a successful project, begun in 1997, to effectively eradicate functional illiteracy among young people through a multiple-component ...

Dialects matter: The influence of dialects and code-switching on the literacy and numeracy achievements of isiXhosa Grade 1 learners in the Western Cap

A study of the influence of different dialects and code-switching on the literacy and numeracy achievements of isiXhosa Grade 1 learners in the Western Cape ...

Submission dealing with reading from Nic Spaull to the State President’s Roundtable on Strategies for long-term prosperity

A South African research study that argues for the importance of letter-sound knowledge in the earliest stages of children learning to read and in particular ...

Teaching early reading in Africa – with African Storybook

Produced by Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) on the Open University's OpenLearn platform, this free introductory course supports an active ...

The Primary Teacher Education (PrimTEd) Project: How did we get to the literacy standards?

Presentation made at the PrimTEd Annual National Dialogue on 17 October 2019 at Kempton Park. The presentation outlines the situation in the development of ...