The white paper focuses on the literacy crisis in South Africa, as evidenced by the latest findings from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) in 2021.
Key advantages and positive outcomes associated with reading and writing in your mother tongue
The benefits of reading and writing in one’s mother tongue are numerous and profound.
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Road to Literacy
Why it is important that a child learns how to read in their mother tongue Practical tips to help your learners/children read for meaning Why reading for enjoyment is important
Celebrating International Mother Language Day:
Over 750 000 learners a year start school not being taught their basic literacy and numeracy skills in their mother tongues.
Oxford CAPS Planner and Trackers: now updated to align to Revised Annual Teaching Plans
Our CAPS Planner and Tracker guides have been updated to align to the DBE’s latest Revised Annual Teaching Plans for 2023-24. Each guide contains a helpful CAPS progress tracker, photocopiable...
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An Author Reads: Reduce, reuse, recycle!
We get lots of things from the Earth that we need to stay alive. The Earth gives us trees, fruit and vegetables, and water.
An Author Reads: Usenza Iqhawekazi
A fiction legend story about how the practice of celebrating birthdays with a birthday cake came to be.
An Author Reads: I want to play
I want to play is the seventh Reader of Level 1 in the Aweh! English First Additional Language reading scheme.
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