Wordworks Little Stars Research Project Final Report 2024
Report on the progress, learnings and achievements of the Yizani Sifunde project | 2021
Yizani Sifunde is a partnership project between Book Dash, Nal’ibali and Wordworks, with local Eastern Cape partners ITEC and Khululeka. The project is funded by the Liberty Community Trust and aims to improve early literacy practices in underserved communities in the Eastern Cape.
This report summarises the activities, outcomes and learnings from the first year of the project’s implementation and looks ahead to 2022.
What is the impact of a STORY-BASED TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMME on language and early literacy in 4- and 5-year-olds?
Here is a series of research briefs on the Wordworks *Little Stars programme that explores this question. The research was conducted by a team made up of Dr Shelley O’Carroll, Prof Daleen Klop, Monique Visser, Annelien Smith and Anike Swart from the Stellenbosch University, Prof Jane Oakhill from the University of Sussex and Prof Kate Cain from the University of Lancaster in the United Kingdom.
*Little Stars is a low-cost, open-source language and literacy professional development programme (in 3 languages) for teachers of 4- and 5-year-olds. See more on this website.
