We would like to congratulate Edna Freinkel on her Rebecca Ostrowiak Reading Programme (READUCATE) being approved by the Gauteng Provincial Government for the Gauteng Primary Literacy Strategy (GPLS).
In February 2010 Gabi Khumalo reported in the BauTimes (Tshwane) that according to the Education MEC, Barbara Creecy, government research has shown that the majority of learners in the province are unable to read or write at the levels required by the national curriculum. The aim of the GPLA is for sixty percent of Grade six learners in Gauteng to be at or above the national literacy achievement standard by 2014. To reach the set target of 60 percent, Creecy said the GPLS would focus on four pillars – including annual external assessments of all Grade 3 and 6 learners and the provision of high quality literacy textbooks, workbooks, reader and teacher guides for all learners in 790 underperforming primary schools amongst other things.
Rebecca Ostrowiak’s series “Teach Any Child or Adult to Read” can be used by any literate parent, teacher or psychologist who wishes to teach reading, writing, spelling, comprehension and memory training initially or remedially to primary and high school learners or for adults with little or no schooling. The simple instructions teach the alphabetic, phonic, look-learn-say and whole language approaches. The series has been particularly successful in remediating dyslexic children and adults and was endorsed by Marion Welchman OBE, a Co-Founder of the British Dyslexia Association.
Edna is available for educational talks. Her “The Relationship between Reading and Television” is a popular, interactive lecture for teachers, learners and parents.
JvR is proud to be a distributor of the Rebecca Ostrowiak Reading Programme. For more information on the Programme please contact our Psychometric Advisory Services department on 011 781-3705.
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