Early Literacy Project - Explorations and Reflections Part 2

The Early Literacy Project is an intervention to support Hindi learners. In the first part of this paper, the theoretical concerns were discussed. In this second part, the experiences of working within classrooms of a few government schools is presented. These included linguistically controlled interventions for beginners, which aimed to build strong foundations in phonological awareness, orthographic knowledge and skills of meaning constructions in keeping with natural predispositions and the out-of-school languages and experiences of learners. The experiences of setting up ‘active print rich classrooms’ is also discussed. Although the responses from the classrooms have been encouraging, systemic mechanisms are required for sustaining these interventions.