Acknowledgements

Teaching early reading in Africa was developed by a team of five educators (specialists in early reading and online learning, with support from others). It was financed by a donation from The David and Elaine Potter Foundation. We are based at The Open University in the UK and at Saide in South Africa. The course draws heavily on the ideas and approaches presented in the TESSA OER [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] and the African Storybook initiative.

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Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources:

Section 1

Figure 1.1: courtesy of Egerton Primary School, Kenya; Figures 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7: Book Aid International – this file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic Licence; Activity 1.6 optional reading: Optimising Learning Education and Publishing in Africa: The Language Factor, courtesy of UNESCO; Activity 1.6 optional reading: Kioko, A.N. (2014) ‘Mother tongue and education in Africa: publicising the reality’, Multilingual Education, vol. 4, no. 18 – this file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence; Activity 1.6 optional activity: Multilingualism in the classroom, TESS-India project/The Open University, used under https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 3.0/ deed.en.

Section 2

Figures 2.2 and 2.3: courtesy of Egerton Primary School, Kenya; Figures 2.4 and 2.5: Book Aid International – this file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic Licence.

Section 3

Figure 3.1 and course banner: African Storybook – used under https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 4.0/; Figure 3.2: Injangwe Yanjye Irihe?/Where is my cat? (authors: Clare Verbeek, Thembani Dladla and Zanele Buthelezi; adaptation: Martin Arabaruta, Tara Ocansey and John Mugabo; illustrator: Bronwen Heath; language: Kinyarwanda English; level: first sentences), © School of Education and Development (Centre for Adult Education) University of Kwazulu-Natal 2007, Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0; source http://www.africanstorybook.org/, original source http://cae.ukzn.ac.za/ resources/ seedbooks.aspx; Figure 3.3: Book Aid International – this file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic Licence; Figure 3.4: Look at the animals (author: Jenny Katz; illustrator: Sandy Campbell; language: English; level: first words), © African Reading Matters 2003, Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 3.0; source http://www.africanstorybook.org/, original source http://www.read.org.za/; Games to support readiness for reading: Sally Goddard Blythe (2000) ‘Early learning in the balance: priming the first ABC’, Support for Learning, vol. 15, no. 4, John Wiley and Sons; Figure 3.6: courtesy of Egerton Primary School, Kenya; Using pair work: TESS-India project/The Open University, used under https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 3.0/ deed.en.

Section 4

Phonemic awareness video: © World Vision International.

Section 5

Optional reading: Chambers, A. (2011) Tell Me: Children, Reading and Talk with The Reading Environment, The Thimble Press – the book includes a list of the different sorts of questions that you can ask children about books; Figure 5.1: © African Storybook Initiative 2014, used under https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 4.0/.

Section 6

Figure 6.2: © African Storybook Initiative, used under https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 4.0/.

Additional resources

Getting started on the ASb website: Omwana Omwagalwa (authors: Ritah Katetemera and Mulongo Bukheye; translation: Annet Ssebaggala and Ritah Katetemera; illustration: Brian Wambi), courtesy of Saide, used under https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 4.0/; Translating a storybook on the ASb website: courtesy of Saide, used under https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 4.0/; Stages of reading development chart: images from Chicken and Millipede and I enjoy doing storybooks © African Storybook Initiative, used under https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 4.0/; image of girl: publisher unknown.

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