A review of the Every Word Counts Programme | 2018
Reflections on working in partnership to train trainers and support partners as they implement the Every Word Counts programme. The review covers the programme’s implementation from July 2016 to July 2018 and provides lessons to inform the way forward.
A study of the Emergent Literacy Project rollout in the Western Cape | 2017
In 2015 the Curriculum Directorate of the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) partnered with Wordworks to take its Emergent Literacy project (ELIT) to Grade R classrooms across the eight education districts of the Western Cape. ELIT incorporates the STELLAR Programme (Strengthening Teaching of Early Language and Literacy in Grade R) which Wordworks developed, implemented and refined over several years.
The purpose of this qualitative study was to deliver findings which illuminate the effectiveness of the ELIT ‘cascaded training with support’ dissemination model. By drawing on the key implementers’ accounts of the rollout, the research seeks to provide insights for future dissemination, refinement or replication of the ELIT project or similar large-scale training interventions in state primary schooling.
Every Word Counts RCL Foods Worcester Project Evaluation | 2016
This report documents an evaluation of the Every Word Counts programme (EWC) in Worcester, Western Cape, a partnership between Wordworks and the Foundation for Community Work (FCW) funded by RCL Foods. The evaluation aimed firstly to assess whether the model of delivery had effectively deepened participants’ understanding of early learning and language development, taught participants practical skills and activities and enabled participants to apply what they had learned; and secondly, how well the delivery and support model was working.
The CareUp project is a mobile communication intervention initiated by the Department of Social Development (DSD) in the Western Cape, and jointly funded by the DSD and Innovation Edge. It targets both practitioners at Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres working with classes of 4 to 5-year old children; and parents of the children in their class. CareUp aims to support quality communication between the parent, caregivers and their children.
Read the executive summary of the evaluation report here.
Lessons from a pilot of the Every Word Counts programme | 2015
This evaluation sets out the process of researching and developing the Every Word Counts programme and shares the findings of an evaluation of the training and resource package piloted in a non-ECD organisation that runs a home visiting programme.
Home-School Partnerships Programme: Evaluation report | 2015
This evaluation aims to distil ways of supporting informal learning at home, drawing from the Wordworks Home-School Partnerships programme. The evaluation presents synthesised feedback gathered from key partners and beneficiaries, teacher-facilitators, classroom teachers and parents who participated in the programme.
Lessons on creating scale for an early language and literacy skills development programme | 2013
In this short article Wordworks shares the lessons learned while scaling-up the Home-School Partnerships (HSP) programme. There is strong evidence of the positive impact that the programme has on parents, caregivers and teachers, and, through them, children.
Read the learning brief here.
