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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"foundational literacy"”.
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Strengthening foundational literacy : a process and outcome evaluation of the Wordworks Early Literacy programme
… of a volunteer-run, school-based Wordworks Early Literacy intervention that was implemented in the Western Cape for struggling Grade One learners at risk of falling into the Learning Achievement Gap. The process evaluation investigated the extent to which volunteers received adequate training to …
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Reading Motivation as a Moderator for Adolescent Literacy Outcomes
… often come to class without the necessary literacy proficiency for high school level content. English/Language Arts teachers find themselves needing to teach both grade level material alongside the basic, intermediate and disciplinary literacy skills students need to access text. Reading …
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Enhancing Struggling Readers' Word Decoding: Assessing the Impact of Digital Text Features
… for K–8 students to have a better sense of foundational literacy skills. The study was grounded in Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development (1978) and Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory (1986). The thesis study explored how struggling readers in Grades 4–7 utilized DTFs to decode words, with …
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Understanding Head Teachers’ Responsibility towards Children’s Foundational Learning in Rural India: Focusing on their Perceptions, Attitudes, Barriers, and Actions
… attitudes of head teachers towards children’s foundational learning; as well as the barriers they face in supporting children’s achievement of foundational literacy and numeracy skills. Using the adjusted Reasoned Action Approach (Fishbein & Ajzen, 2010) as a conceptual framework, this thesis …
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A Process Evaluation of the Academic Component of the Hope Scholars Programme (HSP)
… in 1998 with a goal to equip HSP learners with foundational literacy and numeracy skills for the future education and training (FET) phase and subsequent education. HSP activities are implemented under four broad service areas: (a) academic tutoring sessions; (b) experiential learning; (c) …
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The use of early-grade reading benchmarks to improve the efficacy of assessment in African languages
… been considerable sector-wide efforts to improve foundational literacy outcomes, including the establishment of reading benchmarks in African languages. These benchmarks are a measure of grade-level reading proficiency that can be used to monitor progress at the national, provincial, district and …
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Elementary Teachers' Perceptions about the Causes of Literacy Gaps among Elementary Students.
Background: In the 21st century, literacy means the ability to use reading skills to gain access to the world of knowledge, synthesize information from different sources, evaluate arguments, and gain new knowledge. Teachers encounter new students each year with hopes of teaching their students to …
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An analysis of the literacy beliefs and practices of faculty and graduates from a preservice English teacher education program
… following qualitative study explored changes in literacy beliefs and practices and changes in messages about literacy in Secondary English teacher education courses in the past 15 years. Four distinct groups affiliated with the University of the Midwest (methods course instructors, English …
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Impact evaluation of Funda Wande in-service teacher coaching intervention: Findings from the first year
… package of support to train Foundation Phase literacy teachers in how to teach reading for meaning in African languages. The pilot intervention evaluated here takes place in three urban schooling districts in South Africa's Eastern Cape province. The intervention is implemented in partnership …