Search results 86 items matching your search terms. Filter the results Item type Select All/None Event File News Item Staff member Link Page Image New items since Yesterday Last week Last month Ever Sort by relevance date (newest first) alphabetically “Sixty words per minute for all”: Why this goal for the early grades? Short paper arguing that failure to learn reading is the primary reason for repetition in the early grades. Students cannot learn from books until they can ... Located in Projects / … / Resources / Language and Literacy resources repository A Brief History of Reading Instruction A short history of reading instruction and in particular of the Whole language versus Phonics dispute. Located in Projects / … / Resources / Language and Literacy resources repository A history of disputes about reading instruction Discusses the disputes internationally and in Australia on how reading is taught and raises the important issue of the lack of impact of research on teaching ... Located in Projects / … / Resources / Language and Literacy resources repository A seven year study of the effects of synthetic phonics teaching on reading and spelling attainment The report of a groundbreaking, seven-year research trial that was a powerful influence on the British government adopting systematic phonics as the best ... Located in Projects / … / Resources / Language and Literacy resources repository Accessing Foundation Phase literacy resources in all our official languages, focusing on African languages Presentation made to a PrimTEd seminar in February 2020 that outlines the Molteno Institute’s work on graded readers basic on the phonics of South African ... Located in Projects / … / Resources / Language and Literacy resources repository 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 ... Located in Projects / … / Resources / Language and Literacy resources repository An exploratory study of early letter-sound knowledge in a low socio-economic context in South Africa 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 ... Located in Projects / … / Resources / Language and Literacy resources repository Annotated list of readings on literacy teacher competencies and standards This annotated bibliography was compiled as part of the PrimTEd project and comes from the Consolidated Literacy Work Group (CLWG), which focuses on developing ... Located in Projects / … / Standards / Literacy teacher standards Are we country of cognitive genocide? Full version of an article published in a condensed form by The Conversation on 26 February 2018 as "South Africa’s reading crisis is a cognitive catastrophe". Located in Projects / … / Resources / Language and Literacy resources repository At a Loss for Words: How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers Critique of whole language and balanced literacy approaches to teaching reading. Has a rich set of URLs to useful sources. Located in Projects / … / Resources / Language and Literacy resources repository 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ... 9 Next 10 items > Subscribe to an always-updated RSS feed.
