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National Framework for the Teaching of Reading in African Languages in the Foundation Phase

The framework recognises that although learning to read is very similar across languages, differences in the way languages are structured and in their writing ...

New Readers Publishers - easy readers for adults

New Readers Publishers develops and supports adult literacy and basic English Second Language skills by producing easy to read books in all South African ...

Elegant research study which found that the proportion of the three components of fluent reading are 62% phonic decoding, 16% whole (high frequency) word ...

PIRLS 2021 SA Preliminary highlights report

The Progress in International Reading Literacy study 2021 South African Preliminary highlights report

Pitfalls and possibilities in literacy research. A review of South African literacy studies, 2004-2018

This article evaluates South African research from two annotated bibliographies on reading in African languages at home language level (2004–2017) and South ...

This is a set of draft study guides for students who are training to teach reading and writing in Primary Schools and particularly in the Foundation Phase. The ...

This is a set of draft study guides for students who are training to teach reading and writing in Primary Schools. They can be used as self-study material and ...

Putting reading in Northern Sotho on track in the early years: Changing resources, expectations and practices in a high poverty school

Groundbreaking study of a grade 1 reading intervention in a high poverty school over a four year period that found that improvements in reading in the African ...

Reading comprehension in high-poverty schools: how should it be taught and how well does it work

A description and appraisal of a reading comprehension programme that was aimed at Grade 6 learners and teachers and implemented in different ways in two ...

This is a short introduction to the development of reading fluency in initial reading teaching. It describes the components of reading fluency and methods for ...