Roger Federer Foundation Grade R Interventions Mapping Report

This important study maps various Grade R interventions in South Africa in 2023. Wordworks interventions (with different partners) feature strongly, with the following being covered in this Report:

Wordworks Stellar programme 

Wordworks Home-School Partnerships programme

Wordworks TIME programme

Read the full report here

(See more about these programmes here: https://www.wordworks.org.za/our-early-literacy-programmes/)

 

TIME chapter Global Education Innovation Initiative | 2022

Learning to build back better futures for education: Lessons from educational innovation during the covid-19 pandemic

At a time when education has been disrupted to the extent that it has, governments and communities the world over are rethinking how, where and why we educate.

Wordworks is honoured to have contributed to UNESCO’s international study, examining how our TIME (Together in My Education) intervention programme for young children, rolled out during COVID-19 and after, addressed the challenges posed by the pandemic and its impact on educational innovation.

In the article, Schools as learning hubs for family support, Wordworks considers how the TIME programme has contributed to laying the foundation for a transformational and sustainable approach to building back better, and why it matters at this juncture in our educational evolution.

Read the report here.

Reflections on whether reading programmes improve reading ability | 2016

The role of monitoring and evaluation in six South African reading programmes

This article focuses on six reading programmes, (including the Wordworks Ready Steady Read Write programme) and asks: Do these programmes work insofar as they improve the reading ability of programme participants?

Read the report here.