Grade 4 Reading Catch-Up Programme: summary of impact report Name of organisation/service provider: Wits University: Led by Prof. Brahm Fleisch, Dr Stephen Taylor and Dr Thabo Mabogoane Name of Project / Intervention: Reading Catch-Up Research Project Duration of...

Introduction The South African national curriculum promotes Group Guided Reading (GGR) as the core Foundation Phase reading instructional strategy. Following GGR, learners with similar reading abilities are placed in small groups and appropriate reading material is...

Introduction Recent research in Foundation Phase numeracy shows that the current mismatch between learner competence and grade-level demands is negatively affecting learning outcomes. The problem stems from the overloaded curriculum, which teachers struggle to cover...

The study was initiated to implement and evaluate three models of support to determine what model/s could improve the acquisition of literacy skills among learners and at what cost. Specifically, the study was designed to test interventions that could be implemented...

A multi-year project on Initial Teacher Education (ITE) aimed at improving performance in Mathematics and literacy at primary level through teacher graduates with competence to work with children to develop their language/literacy and Mathematical competencies at the...

The research was undertaken to better understand how children learn mathematics in African languages. The project also developed and tested teaching and learning resources for Foundation Phase mathematics in isiXhosa that was informed by the research.  Name of...

This project focused on understanding the underlying causes of poor performance in Foundation Phase numeracy and literacy. The research methodology involved analysing the various large national datasets that are available. The Zenex Foundation funded research...