21 August 2019 - 18:16It’s rare to find a topic that all SA"experts" agree on, except perhaps that crime is bad and growth is good. However, there is one area where there is now almost universal consensus in our country: more than half of children in SA are not learning to read in the first three years of school and we can probably do something about this.
Children can only learn to read in a language they can speak and understand. Period. End of story. They can acquire additional languages like English very effectively once they’re literate in their home language.”Even a decade ago this would’ve been hotly contested in SA yet now every single one of the 84 delegates in the room was in full agreement.
It certainly isn’t as sexy as coding in primary schools or one-tablet-per-child; interestingly this was the one universal thing where everyone said tablets are definitely the wrong way to go’ Thankfully some provincial education departments have been listening. The Eastern Cape’s deputy director-general, Penny Vinjevold — who presented at the lekgotla — explained how they had been focusing specifically on these three “consensus” areas.
Partly at the Eastern Cape department of education’s request, researchers at the University of Stellenbosch , as well as those from the University of Cape Town have undertaken a study to monitor the improvement of reading outcomes in three districts as a result of a targeted reading intervention , which we developed. To do so we conducted a baseline assessment at the start of 2019 and will conduct an endline assessment at the end of 2020.
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