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

Supporting transition or playing catch-up in Grade 4? Implications for standards in education and training

Description of an intervention programme designed to support the transition to English as the medium of instruction in Grade 4 in a township school, using a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 is a short introduction to the development of writing in initial literacy teaching. It describes the components of teaching writing, including ...

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.

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 ...

The Department of Basic Education Literacy Workbooks

Since 2011 the Department of Education produced free Literacy workbooks in all the home languages for all primary education school grades R to 6.

The End of Illiteracy? The Holy Grail of Clackmannanshire

Essentially a study of the initial stages of the rise of synthetic phonics as the preferred approach to teaching reading in the United Kingdom. It is useful ...