Indigenous Knowledge System Influences Children’s Literacy: Through Home Story Telling

In the past, most African societies received informal education from their parents and grandparents through storytelling.The knowledge of the listed themes was not learned through the formal schooling system but through Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS), which is an understanding of informal schooling at home.In the morning, the parents and grandparents would wake the children up to ask them to retell their dreams.will use the narrative literature review technique to investigate the topic further.Therefore, this study seeks to explore and investigate what has been said and written about children's learning at home back in the past.Learning the language and home language through the oral literature of intsomi.This article advocates that the IKS was a very good and optimistic way of instilling ingenious skills in children and understanding the IKS in formal school and its impact on teaching the isiXhosa language, especially in schools in the Eastern Cape where the language is dominant.