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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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Leadership for Literacy: Exploring leadership practices in township and rural primary schools serving poor communities in South Africa
Final Report on the Case Study Schools, 9 April 2018
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Learning to read and reading to learn
Succinct description of the data on early reading in South Africa with five policy recommendations
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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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Literacy acquisition: Some general findings from recent research
A summary of a key chapter on literacy acquisition from Helena Abadzi’s well known book.
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Literacy: a cultural influence on functional left-right differences in the inferior parietal cortex
A study showing that the brains of illiterates are consistently more right-lateralized than with literates and that, therefore, literacy influences the ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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