| Reading ability and academic performance in South Africa: Are we fiddling while Rome is burning? EJ Pretorius Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Southern Africa 33 (1), 169-196, 2002 | 298 | 2002 |
| Playing football without a ball: language, reading and academic performance in a high‐poverty school EJ Pretorius, DM Mampuru Journal of Research in Reading 30 (1), 38-58, 2007 | 196 | 2007 |
| Exploring relationships between oral reading fluency and reading comprehension amongst English second language readers in South Africa EJ Pretorius, N Spaull Reading and Writing 29, 1449-1471, 2016 | 138 | 2016 |
| The socio-educational context of literacy accomplishment in disadvantaged schools: Lessons for reading in the early primary school years EJ Pretorius, MP Machet Journal for language teaching 38 (1), 45-62, 2004 | 128 | 2004 |
| Do the rich get richer and the poor poorer?: The effects of an intervention programme on reading in the home and school language in a high poverty multilingual context EJ Pretorius, S Currin International Journal of Educational Development 30 (1), 67-76, 2010 | 125 | 2010 |
| Reading skills and mathematics: the practice of higher education CA Bohlmann, EJ Pretorius South African Journal of Higher Education 16 (3), 196-206, 2002 | 113 | 2002 |
| Reading comprehension in South African schools: Are teachers getting it, and getting it right? EJ Pretorius, NM Klapwijk Per Linguam: a Journal of Language Learning= Per Linguam: Tydskrif vir …, 2016 | 112 | 2016 |
| Supporting transition or playing catch-up in Grade 4? Implications for standards in education and training EJ Pretorius Perspectives in Education 32 (1), 51-76, 2014 | 99 | 2014 |
| Reading in a disadvantaged high school: Issues of accomplishment, assessment and accountability E Pretorius, R Ribbens South African journal of education 25 (3), 139-147, 2005 | 90 | 2005 |
| " What they can't read will hurt them": reading and academic achievement EJ Pretorius INNOVATION-PIETERMARITZBURG-, 33-41, 2000 | 89 | 2000 |
| Still falling at the first hurdle: Examining early grade reading in South Africa N Spaull, E Pretorius South African schooling: The enigma of inequality: A study of the present …, 2019 | 81 | 2019 |
| Reading comprehension in high-poverty schools: How should it be taught and how well does it work? EJ Pretorius, M Lephalala Per Linguam: a Journal of Language Learning= Per Linguam: Tydskrif vir …, 2011 | 71 | 2011 |
| Bilingual and biliterate? An exploratory study of Grade 8 reading skills in Setswana and English DS Matjila, EJ Pretorius Per Linguam: a Journal of Language Learning= Per Linguam: Tydskrif vir …, 2004 | 71 | 2004 |
| Reading and the Unisa student: Is academic performance related to reading ability? EJ Pretorius Progressio 22 (2), 35-48, 2000 | 69 | 2000 |
| Literacy and disadvantage: learners' achievements in the early primary school years EJ Pretorius, MP Machet Unisa Press 1 (1), 128-146, 2004 | 66 | 2004 |
| English as a second language learner differences in anaphoric resolution: Reading to learn in the academic context EJ Pretorius Applied Psycholinguistics 26 (4), 521-539, 2005 | 58 | 2005 |
| The comprehension of logical relations in expository texts by students who study through the medium of ESL EJ Pretorius System 34 (3), 432-450, 2006 | 57 | 2006 |
| Reading and applied linguistics-a deafening silence? EJ Pretorius Southern African linguistics and applied language studies 20 (1-2), 91-103, 2002 | 56 | 2002 |
| Relationships between mathematics and literacy: Exploring some underlying factors C Bohlmann, E Pretorius Pythagoras 2008 (1), 42-55, 2008 | 55 | 2008 |
| Putting reading in Northern Sotho on track in the early years: Changing resources, expectations and practices in a high poverty school EJ Pretorius, MM Mokhwesana South African Journal of African Languages 29 (1), 54-73, 2009 | 46 | 2009 |
