Towards an ITE literacy teacher curriculum: Component content descriptions

The purpose of this set of Content Descriptions is to provide a resource for curriculum developers in higher education institutions engaged in developing or revising their initial teacher education curriculum for primary school literacy teachers who will on graduating teach reading and writing in the various South African official languages. A first consultative workshop on a Draft Curriculum Framework for literacy teaching in Initial Primary Teacher Education was held on 25 and 26 January 2019 and this version of the Content descriptions was revised subsequently.