The Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa (PRAESA) is a non-governmental organisation focussed on multilingual early childhood language and literacy development. Our work in language and literacy approaches, curricula, training, materials development and research has meaning-making, stories and imagination as its compass point. PRAESA’s aim is to ensure that young children from all language, class and cultural backgrounds have appropriate opportunities to become imaginative and critical readers and writers.
Anton Lucien’s first story
Nadia describes a literacy event, in which he comes to dictate his very first story, which she writes down for him. Such small stories, are what drive language and literacy development and learning, though in the busy-ness of home and school life, their significance can be underestimated, or ignored…