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Preparing your pre-schooler for reading

by Oxford University Press | Feb 11, 2021 | Schools News, Covid-19

According to the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) of 2016, almost 80% of South African Grade 4 learners do not understand what they read. One cause of this is that many teachers are overwhelmed by large classes, and another is that schools lack...

How dictionaries can support home learning during the COVID-19 pandemic

by Oxford University Press | May 19, 2020 | Dictionaries, Covid-19

“The COVID-19 pandemic is a health crisis, an economic crisis, and also a crisis for children’s education,” say the authors of a recent article titled “COVID-19 and Children’s Education”1. The education crisis is widespread: According to UNESCO, more than 1,2 billion...

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    On 4 September 2026, Angelique Timms, Curriculum Lead at Curro, was a guest speaker at the annual Oxford Digital Africa: Future Learning Labs event held in Cape Town. She spoke on why digital learning is becoming increasingly embedded in education and that schools face a critical question: How can technology be used to meaningfully improve literacy outcomes rather than simply digitize traditional learning.
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    Four school dictionaries priced below R200 aim to help learners in Grades 4 to 9 build the language skills needed to understand and evaluate online answers.
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    In the 2026 edition of Oxford’s literacy magazine, A, B, See!, we build on the themes of the third issue and explore the transition that learners make from learning to read to reading to learn, and how the shift from the Foundation Phase to the Intermediate Phase is one of the most significant milestones in a learner’s educational journey.

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