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My fish died and I flushed him down the toilet”: Children disrupt preservice teachers’ understandings of “appropriate” picture books for young children
A study of the relationship between pre-service teachers’ conceptions of children and of picture books in the context of little material on picture books in ...
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CITE-ITEL
CITE-TEL is a web-based resource, the Critical, Interactive, Transparent & Evolving literature review in Initial Teacher Education in Literacy, hosted by the ...
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Lifewide learning for early reading development
A large scale study of the influence of the home and community literacy environments in Asia and Africa that found that a modest but consistent relationship ...
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Early Grade Reading Study (EGRS)
This research study sought to examine the results of three interventions to improve teachers’ instructional practice – one with block training twice a year ...
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Bringing literacy home. Family Literacy Conference Proceedings. 19 - 21 September 2005, Pietermaritzburg
Proceedings on this first national conference on family literacy in South Africa has some excellent papers that look into the near invisible world of family ...
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Foundation Phase Matters: Language and Learning in South African Rural Classrooms
The study looks at teacher instructional practice, learner performance outcomes, and intervention process design. It was designed to help develop an ...
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Hard Words: Why aren't kids being taught to read?
Popular article from the United States of America that argues that, thought scientific research has shown how children learn to read and how they should be ...
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The science is clear about 'mother-tongue' education. So why are we attacking it?
Article noting the contradiction between empirical research evidence backed up by the constitutional support for mother-tongue instruction with the current ...
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Back to basics: comparing the orthographic, phonic and grammatical features of English and African languages to improve literacy teaching
Presentation made to a PrimTEd seminar in February 2020 illustrating some of the differences and similarities in the orthography, phonics and syntax between ...
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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 ...
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