The ability to read for meaning and pleasure is arguably the most important skill children learn in primary school. Zambia, like many other nations, experiences low reading levels due to the non comprehension of most learners. Oral reading fluency (ORF), defined as the ability to read text...
Download PDF ↓This study sought to establish the long-term effects of exposing preschool children to digital stories and rhymes on acquiring reading skills beyond alphabetic knowledge, phonological awareness, and vocabulary skills at the end of first grade. The objectives of this study were to find out the...
Download PDF ↓This study investigated how a digital intervention programme influenced the development of emergent literacy skills, including rhyme awareness, vocabulary, and story comprehension, in preschool children from resource-constrained environments in Lusaka province, Zambia. The study was quantitative...
Download PDF ↓The goal of this study was to evaluate how well the Primary Literacy Programme (PLP) was working to Improve the reading abilities ofGrade 3 pupils with Hearing Impairment (HI). This is in light of persistently poor reading among pupils with HI- The PLP is aimed at developing reading abilities of...
Download PDF ↓Unfamiliarity with the language of teaching is blamed for the high illiteracy rate among people who live in nations in which hundreds of languages are spoken. For a critical test of the importance of the language in which initial reading is taught we took the Zambian situation as a natural...
Preschool is known to prepare children for formal school. Studies worldwide have shown that children who attend preschool perform better than those who do not attend preschool in early years. There is some evidence that preschool curriculums that incorporate executive functions yield better...
Download PDF ↓Reading is essential for children’s educational success and communication in a technologically advancing society. This position has provoked researchers to investigate the process of reading acquisition. Although a number of factors inhibit and facilitate the process of its acquisition, many...
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