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Initiative to provide multilingual books to ECD centres to tackle the literacy crisis in SA
The 2023 National Reading Barometer in South Africa ... access to a single fiction or non-fiction book. It is also revealed that 65% of children under the age of 10 lack picture books, and many ...
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Multilingual curriculum is effective in improving literacy skills, says educational psychologist
Maapola therefore advocates for a multilingual learning curriculum to be initiated in Early Childhood Development (ECD ... level in children’s own languages so that the books they read are ...
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More than 1.3 million South African children lack early education, minister reveals
According to the minister of basic education, Siviwe Gwarube, more than 1.3 million children in South Africa are not enrolled in any early childhood development (ECD) programme. Consequently, these ...