Government's 'massive reading campaign' 📚announced in 2019 is yet to get off the ground, with thousands of SA learners still unable to read. TheCitizenNews Education EducationNews Read the story here⬇️
President Cyril Ramaphosa ahead of delivering the State of the Nation Address in February 2019. Archive photo Ashraf Hendricks
Early in 2020 the DBE incorporated the President’s goal into its Strategic Plan. The department announced a newly developed “sector reading plan”, which it said would include the rollout of improved reading materials in African languages and better teacher training, based on findings from its long-running Early Grade Reading Study.
The National Reading Plan, made public here for the first time, is a document that consists of a front page and a table listing 47 activities under ten thematic areas. Each “activity” has annual targets for every one of the plan’s five years: 2019/20 to 2023/24. The Reading Panel 2030 had previously pointed out that the Western Cape was the only province that had budgeted for and implemented a province-wide reading programme.Professor Sarah Chapman, from the University of Cape Town’s Commerce Faculty, is an expert in monitoring and evaluation.
The overall result of these shortcomings in the plan, she said, was that the provinces’ reports were “chaotic”. The provinces’ reports rarely included measurements of progress towards the annual targets laid out in the plan.
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