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Lorato Trok

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Lorato Trok

Lorato Trok is an early literacy consultant and develops books for children, especially in African languages

Parents have long been told that reading to their child is an essential facet of good parenting. (John McCann/M&G)
CORONAVIRUS INSPIRE

Family literacy: The glue that binds us

The lockdown is an ideal time to reintroduce storytelling at home and in the process promote a love of reading

  • Lorato Trok
3 min read
Early learning difficulties lead to school dropout, poor matric results, repeated school years and a less effective system for preparing young people for the world
KURUMAN

Read a story to children in their home language

Download a story in an indigenous South African language for World Read Aloud Day

  • Lorato Trok
3 min read