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Narrowing the Literacy Gap – Strengthening language and literacy development between birth and six years for children in South Africa
March 2012

This Wordworks report discusses why language development in a child’s first years is so important to later reading and writing skills, and sets out strategies and recommendations relevant to all those involved in efforts to raise South Africa's literacy rates.

 

An exploratory study of early letter-sound knowledge in a low socio-economic contexts in South Africa
July 2011

This article by Shelley O’Carroll was published in Reading and Writing (the Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, RASA).


DG Murray Trust Learning Brief
April 2011

This brief explains the context in which we work as well as setting out the thinking and methodology behind Wordworks’ programmes.

 

 

 

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