‘One day I will pick up a snake, wanting to read it’: Becoming a successful reader in a rural environment

Children learning to read and write in rural areas in Southern Africa perform poorly compared to children in urban schools. The poor results of rural schools in national assessments of reading literacy are explained by the deficits of rural areas: poverty, under-resourced schools and under-qualified...

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Main Author: Caroline van der Mescht
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AOSIS 2015-07-01
Series:Reading & Writing
Online Access:https://rw.org.za/index.php/rw/article/view/55