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South African Journal of Childhood Education
On-line version ISSN 2223-7682
Print version ISSN 2223-7674
Abstract
MAKUMBILA, Mohlanhledi P. and ROWLAND, Charline B.. Improving South African third graders' reading skills: Lessons learnt from the use of Guided Reading approach. SAJCE [online]. 2016, vol.6, n.1, pp.1-8. ISSN 2223-7682. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajce.v6i1.367.
This professional development project, known as Literacy Leadership Project, enabled four Foundation Phase teachers in South Africa to implement the Guided Reading approach. Developed by American researchers Fountas and Pinnell (1996), Guided Reading helps elementary students strengthen their phonemic awareness, vocabulary, reading comprehension and fluency in small group activities. Over an 8-month period, lessons learnt came from data collected from this professional development included workshop activities, classroom observations, teachers' group discussions and students' artefacts. Results indicated improvement in students' literacy engagement and motivation because of the use of levelled books, oral reading and group activities.