Final words

Whether you have studied Teaching early reading in Africa – with African Storybook on your own or with a group of colleagues, we hope that it represents the start of your journey to become a reflective, confident, informed and enthusiastic teacher of early reading. You can return to the course at any point and you can keep and adapt the downloadable resources. This course represents the start of a learning journey rather than the end.

As your confidence grows and you become more familiar with the ASb website and ASb Reader and ASb Maker apps, consider making your own contribution by translating, adapting or even writing your own story. If you do that you can tell us about it by re-visiting your blog post.

Teaching early reading is one of the most important jobs in teaching. If children can read fluently and make meaning from what they are reading, by the time they encounter a wider curriculum with a range of different subjects they will have the best possible chance of achieving success at school and giving themselves a range of options as they move into the adult world.

Now that you have completed this course, you may want to complete the post-course survey [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] .