Proud to Read

As creator Proud to Read, I strive to connect with parents, children, teachers and all who work with young children: 

- Online, with www.proudtoread.com website and blog, providing a loving insight into the process of reading and drawing attention to the important role of happy, healthy, whole-child, early childhood development in enhancing children's ability to learn to read.
- On the ground, through school visits and reading clubs, showing children that reading is fun and sharing with teachers the many wonderful ways of helping children develop all the skills for learning to read and write.

Founder and Creator

Founder

Wave Education ABC, Arugam Bay College

Designed a play–based programme based on British Early Years Framework for ages two to six

Developed literacy activities to promote English language acquisition, rich vocabulary, listening comprehension through lively conversations, reading stories, rhyming, singing, dancing  and play
Implemented hands-on strategies through games, crafts, block play and experiments to introduce students to the concepts and language of math and science

Kindergarten Teacher

345 Nursery School

My responsibilities included promoting age-appropriate development through play-based activities and preschool routines, as well as developing new theme-based curriculum paying attention to language acquisition and literacy development of the developing child.

Preschool Teacher/Curriculum Developer, Ages 2 to 3

Macmillan Publishers

As an author my duties included developing English Home Language Learner’s Books, Readers, Workbooks, Teacher’s Guides for grades 2 and 3, in accordance with the aims of the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) amendments to South African Curriculum introduced in schools from January 2012.

Freelance Author/Materials Developer

My responsibilities included promoting age-appropriate development through play-based activities and preschool routines, as well as developing new theme-based curriculum paying attention to language acquisition and literacy development at different stages of development. My most favourite activity has always been to have fun with reading, rhyming, singing at story time.

Preschool Teacher/Curriculum Developer, Ages 3,4 and 5

Heinemann International Southern Africa

I was the series editor and materials developer, together with authors from Botswana, for English Language course books and Teachers’ Guides -  standards 1,2 and 7 -developed in accordance with the Botswana Department of Education guidelines in 2006.

Series Editor/materials Developer

Wits Language School, University of the Witwatersrand

My responsibilities included teaching and assessment of English Foundation Language courses for levels 1,2 and 3. Each course block was 12 weeks long with tuition on Saturday mornings. The courses were designed for students wishing to improve their English language skills for future studies and/or better work opportunities.

English Language Teacher

I was commissioned as Series Editor to develop Heinemann Read On Activity Books with Zambian author teams for learners from grades 1 to 4 for literacy hour at the time. The activity books were designed to provide additional activities for the Read On – A Literacy Handbook Teacher’s Guide published by Cambridge University Press. The activity books were developed in way that would ensure they could be adpapted for use in all the official Zambian languages so that literacy skills in one language would reinforce and enhance the skills in other language/languages.

Series Editor

Heinemann Educational Publishers

As publisher my key areas of responsibility were to: devise, plan and manage English Language educational materials that complied with the curriculum requirements specified by the Department of Education at the time. My work also entailed conducting market research and conceptualizing new publications, preparing budgets and commissioning new projects as per submission requirements of the Department of Education, working and collaborating with all the author teams, as well as monitoring the manuscript development process for the Outcome Based Curriculum.

Publisher: English Language

Quality Schools International

My responsibilities included implementation of developmental programmes for children ages 3-4-5, and the Intensive English/TEFL programmes for learners ages 6 to14.  I was also responsible for supervising a full-time teaching assistant, as well as being in charge of the library facilities at the school and providing instruction in library skills.

Early Childhood Teacher and Intensive English Teacher

As creator of Proud to Read my primary focus is to inspire joy of reading and literacy. My most important goal is to highlight the vital role of joyful, early childhood development, that is rich in language, books, stories and play, as a prerequisite for children to learn to read and become proud, confident and independent readers in the early grades at school.

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