{"id":111769,"date":"2023-10-17T21:44:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T21:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=111769"},"modified":"2023-10-17T21:44:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T21:44:03","slug":"young-teachers-drive-to-fight-illiteracy-through-storytelling-receives-high-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=111769","title":{"rendered":"Young teacher\u2019s drive to fight illiteracy through storytelling receives high praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 22-year-old primary school teacher has been praised for penning a book to help children become proficient readers, especially considering that 81% of grade 4 pupils in South Africa cannot read for meaning. The author, Vuyisile Mahlobo, participated in a forum of authors at the University of Mpumalanga (UMP) in Mbombela during a Literary Renaissance [\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sundayworld.co.za\/news\/education\/young-teachers-drive-to-fight-illiteracy-through-storytelling-receives-high-praise\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=young-teachers-drive-to-fight-illiteracy-through-storytelling-receives-high-praise\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 22-year-old primary school teacher has been praised for penning a book to help children<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/111769-young-teachers-drive-to-fight-illiteracy-through-storytelling-receives-high-praise.jpg",429,283,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/111769-young-teachers-drive-to-fight-illiteracy-through-storytelling-receives-high-praise-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/111769-young-teachers-drive-to-fight-illiteracy-through-storytelling-receives-high-praise-300x198.jpg",300,198,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/111769-young-teachers-drive-to-fight-illiteracy-through-storytelling-receives-high-praise.jpg",429,283,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/111769-young-teachers-drive-to-fight-illiteracy-through-storytelling-receives-high-praise.jpg",429,283,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/111769-young-teachers-drive-to-fight-illiteracy-through-storytelling-receives-high-praise.jpg",429,283,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/111769-young-teachers-drive-to-fight-illiteracy-through-storytelling-receives-high-praise.jpg",429,283,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/111769-young-teachers-drive-to-fight-illiteracy-through-storytelling-receives-high-praise.jpg",429,283,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/111769-young-teachers-drive-to-fight-illiteracy-through-storytelling-receives-high-praise.jpg",429,283,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/111769-young-teachers-drive-to-fight-illiteracy-through-storytelling-receives-high-praise.jpg",429,283,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}