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Towards competency standards for language and literacy teachers

A position paper of the Consolidated Literacy Working Group of PrimTEd on its approach to standards for language and literacy teachers

Using Funda Wande resources in teacher education programmes

Presentation made to a PrimTEd seminar in February 2020

This is a short and basic guide to the development of vocabulary knowledge and use in the primary school.

What we have learned in the past decade: RTI’s approach to early grade literacy instruction

A paper describes the core elements that we have found to improve early grade literacy instruction and learner outcomes: the approach to teaching, the ...

What we have learned in the past decade: RTI’s approach to early grade literacy instruction

A paper describes the core elements that we have found to improve early grade literacy instruction and learner outcomes: the approach to teaching, the ...

What's hot in literacy - 2020

A useful guide to what topics 1 443 “literacy experts” (mainly teachers and reading/literacy specialists in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, ...

What’s Hot in Literacy. 2018 Report

A useful guide to what topics “literacy experts” (mainly teachers and reading/literacy specialists in the United States, Canada, Phillippines, Australia and ...

When signals are lost in aggregation: a comparison of language marks and competencies of first-year university students

A comparative analysis of National Senior Certificate marks and National Benchmark Test (NBT) Academic Literacy (AL) test results for a cohort of first-year ...

Why can’t a teacher be more like a scientist? Science, Pseudoscience and the Art of Teaching

The article provides a useful examination of the distinction between science and pseudoscience, outlines the characteristics of good educational research and ...

A lively discussion of the entrenched rate of illiteracy among Australian children which identifies a failure in the institutions teaching reading educators to ...