The Reading Companions (handbooks) Our whole approach is directed at the children themselves. We believe that young people are completely underestimated. They are capable

When you can read well, you don’t even think about it. You just do it. When you can’t read well, life can easily turn

My friend gives me special feelings – like a sister. She makes me feel happy. She plans surprises like birthday parties. She is respectful

When I had a fight with my friend, I was very sad. But we made friends again. In the classroom we are good friends

In workshops, we often get images form children of what they feel about stories or music – often very revealing about how they interpret

Grade Four children (9 years old) at Elizabethfontein Primary School wrote about emotions seen on faces.  Yellow Happy faces: ‘I draw my friend, and

When I am angry I go to a dark room. That room is so dark there is only one hole that the light comes