South Africa's 10 year-olds are struggling to read -- it can be fixed

By Karen Roux, Senior Lecturer in Assessment and Quality Assurance, University of Pretoria

More than 80% of South Africa’s grade 4 pupils – who are on average nine or 10 years old – cannot read for meaning. That means they can’t answer basic questions about or draw inferences from a text they’re reading. This worrying statistic emerged from the 2021 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), which were released by the country’s basic education minister,…

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