Making sense of the PIRLS 2006 results for South Africa

Results on the PIRLS test in 2006 make it clear that South African educators need to examine the way in which they teach literacy in the Foundation phase. While the test gives a fair indication of what our children cannot do, it is less clear about what they can do. Mastery of decoding, for example,...

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Main Author: Hilary Janks
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AOSIS 2011-05-01
Series:Reading & Writing
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Online Access:https://rw.org.za/index.php/rw/article/view/11