Tackling literacy important for SA

POOR literacy skills is one of the main contributory factors in relation to students’ underachievement.

This has become a crisis, since literacy competence is the cornerstone to attainment of quality education for our children.

There must be a multifaceted approach involving key stakeholders, including parents, teachers and the public to find a solution.

There must be greater urgency and focus in a comprehensive and accelerated approach to solve this problem.

The approach must be datadriven and built into it must be regular evaluation, utilising instruments that will lead to reliable information, which enable us to assist students.

If we don’t act urgently, many of our children will not be able to attain their cherished dreams and goals, because of poor literacy competence.

As a nation we can no longer bury our heads in the sand about this issue. We must urgently work together to positively transform our situation.

If not, many of our children will not be able to access quality education. This is a call to improve the competence among our children and adult population. Nasrine Akoob