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Direct linkWhite, Zainab U.; Toste, Jessica R.; Filderman, Marissa J. – Elementary School Journal, 2023
Literacy is essential to the development of any nation. Despite foreign aid to support education initiatives in Africa, high rates of illiteracy persist. This synthesis examined the extent to which early literacy intervention research has been conducted in Africa and the effects of these interventions on reading outcomes for students in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Young Children, Elementary School Students
Schmidt, Pralene; Condy, Janet; Tiba, Chantyclaire – Perspectives in Education, 2021
Higher-order comprehension skills are necessary to understand a text, yet many South African learners have not been taught these skills. The aim of this study is to explicitly teach higher-order reading comprehension strategies to a Grade 2 learner who could not read for meaning. This study is based upon Vygotsky's Social Constructivist theory.…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Grade 2
Download full textvan Wyk, Gerda; Louw, Arno – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2008
This paper addresses the controversial issues of improving the reading skills of young learners through technology-assisted reading programmes. On reporting the results of primary school learners from grade 2 to grade 7 who participated in a computer-based reading programme for seven months, we try to answer the critical questions of whether…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Reading Programs
