Wordworks is a South African non-profit organisation that focuses on early language and literacy development in the first eight years of children’s lives. Since 2005 workworks have:
- Developed innovative, high quality, multilingual user-friendly teaching and learning materials to support early language and literacy learning
- Offered resourced-based training and mentorship for five early language and literacy intervention programmes.
- Worked in under-resourced communities with those adults best positioned to impact on young children’s language and literacy development – parents and caregivers, family and community members, home-visitors, ECD practitioners and Grade R to Grade 3 teachers.
- Collaborated with those who care for, work with and advocate for young children so that they recognise the importance of early language and literacy and support its development in homes, schools and community settings.
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Literacy
Early Childhood Education
Read more: [Case study] Wordworks
Nal’ibali (isiXhosa for “here’s the story”) is South Africa’s reading-for-enjoyment campaign. It makes use of reading and storytelling in home languages as well as English to support children’s literacy learning and school success. It is one of the biggest literacy-based nongovernmental organisations in South Africa. It was initiated in 2012 by the DG Murray Trust and the Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa (PRAESA).
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Literacy
Early Childhood Education
Read more: [Case study] Nal'ibali
Shine Literacy seeks to create more reading opportunities for children in schools and in the greater community, working with schools directly to develop approaches that are relevant, effective and sustainable. Their main focus as an organisation is foundational phase literacy.
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Literacy
Early Childhood Education
Read more: [Case Study] Shine Literacy: Khanyisa Project