Stop Teaching “A-B-C”: Why Letter Sounds are the Key to Your Classroom’s Literacy Success
In many classrooms, the first major breakthrough in literacy instruction happens when teachers realise that recognising letters is not the same as reading. Children may confidently recite the alphabet and still struggle to decode simple words independently. In effective early literacy instruction, helping children move from letter recognition to decoding is one of the most […]
Why Some Children Know the Alphabet but Still Cannot Read
Understanding Early Literacy Instruction One of the more confusing moments in early literacy instruction is watching a child confidently recite the alphabet while struggling to read a simple three-letter word. A learner can identify A, B, C, and D without hesitation, yet pause completely when asked to read a word like cat or sun. For […]
The Schoola Story
Building EdTech in Nigeria By Nasiru Mustapha, Abdullahi Muhammad Bature & Abdulalim Ladan Prologue: When Learning Nearly Stopped In March 2020, classrooms across Africa went silent. The COVID-19 pandemic did more than shut school gates. It exposed a truth many of us had long ignored: Africa’s education systems were dangerously fragile. Learning depended on physical […]