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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 ...
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Laying firm foundations: getting reading right
Final Report to the ZENEX Foundation on poor student performance in Foundation Phase literacy and numeracy which includes policy recommendations
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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 ...
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Exploring relationships between Oral Reading Fluency and comprehension amongst ESL learners in South Africa
Conference presentation on Oral Reading Fluency and its correlation with comprehension among EFAL learners in South Africa
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Papers on the Core Academic Language Skills Instrument (CALS-I)
The Core Academic Language Skills Instrument (CALS-I) was designed by the Institute of Education Sciences of the United States Department of Education to ...
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Skilled reading in isiZulu: what can we learn from it?
Study of what the orthography of isiZulu requires of readers. As an agglutinative language with a conjoined writing system, isiZulu carries meaning not only in ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Why the New Zealand National Literacy Strategy has failed and what can be done about it.
Responding to evidence from PIRLS 2011 and Reading Recovery monitoring data that New Zealand’s 1999 National Literacy Strategy had failed, the authors look at ...
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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 ...
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