Early Grade Reading in South Africa Editors: Nic Spaull & Elizabeth Pretorius Coming December 2022 ISBN: 9780190751715, EPDF ISBN: 9780190741389, 240 x 168 mm, 304 pp By the end of Grade 3, four in five South African children have not learned to read in any...
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Early Grade Reading in South Africa Editors: Nic Spaull & Elizabeth Pretorius Coming December 2022 ISBN: 9780190751715, EPDF ISBN: 9780190741389, 240 x 168 mm, 304 pp By the end of Grade 3, four in five South African children have not learned to read in any language. This volume brings together twenty South African researchers from six universities to take stock of why this is the case, and what is now known about early grade reading in the country. The years since 2010 have been especially fruitful in terms of both data collection and data analysis, with new insights emerging from large- scale longitudinal assessments of reading in African languages, and in-depth classroom observations of pedagogy and practice. Drawing on data from more than 40,000 learners in no-fee schools, several authors report language-specific reading regularities and propose evidence-based reading benchmarks for Grades 1, 2 and 3. In addition to synoptic reviews of learner outcomes and the national curriculum,
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