New data points to solutions for SA’s child literacy woes
The first Funda Uphumelele Nation Survey (FUNS), which measures the reading ability of children in grades 1 to 3 assessed 27,838 learners in 710 public schools across all the provinces and in all 11 languages, and measured the percentage of children who reach critical reading benchmarks by the end of grade 1, 2 and 3.