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Our Early Literacy Programmes
Wordworks offers five main programmes, which are used by our network of partners which include preschools, schools, libraries, community organisations, training and resource NGOs, tertiary institutions, education districts and other government departments.
• Every Word Counts (0–5 years): Trainers are equipped to train and resource:
– Home visitors and community workers to strengthen the early language and literacy component of their work with families
and caregivers.
– ECD practitioners to build language-rich, interactive learning environments and to reach out to parents and caregivers to
support language and literacy learning at home.
• Little Stars programme (4–5 years): Trainers are equipped to train and resource pre-Grade R teachers and to strengthen their
teaching of language and early literacy through a series of carefully-scaffolded, story-based teaching cycles.
• Stellar Home Language programme (5–6 years): Trainers are equipped to train and resource Grade R teachers to strengthen their
teaching of language and early literacy through a series of carefully-scaffolded, story-based teaching cycles, and to reach out to
parents and caregivers to support language learning at home.
• Home–School Partnerships programme (5–8 years): Foundation Phase and Learning Support Teachers are equipped to facilitate eight weekly workshops of 2½ hours each, to empower and inspire parents and caregivers to support informal learning at home.
• TIME programme (5–8 years): This programme is for parents, caregivers and tutors of children in Grade R and Grade 1. It consists of carefully developed, CAPS aligned activities that can be used at home and in after-school programmes to build language and maths foundations. Read More
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Wordworks is now sharing the fourth and final instalment in our series of briefs from the TIME Study, conducted in 2022-23 with funding from DG Murray Trust: Exploring the implementation of the TIME Home Learning programme and learning trajectories of 5- to 7-year-olds.
After 3 learning briefs that were focused on the ecosystem, this fourth brief sheds light on the experience of caregivers and how the TIME programme plays out in the homes.
It looks more closely at the diverse profiles of families and reviews how the level of engagement with TIME at home is related to the material context of the home, the languages spoken, the caregivers’ employment status and working hours. It also examines the types of challenges that caregivers experience with the materials and the variability in their uptake.
Read the TIME learning brief #4 here:https://www.wordworks.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TIME-Learning-brief-4_E_low-res.pdf
All four briefs are here: https://www.wordworks.org.za/TIME/
*The TIME (Together in my Education) programme is for parents, caregivers and tutors of children in Grade R and Grade 1. It was developed jointly by RedINK (mathematics) and Wordworks (language and literacy) and consists of carefully developed, CAPS aligned, activities that can be used at home and in after-school programmes to build language and maths foundations.
See more on this website: https://www.wordworks.org.za/our-early-literacy-programmes/