Save the Children (SC) began sponsorship-funded programming in the western Kapilvastu district of Nepal in 2010 where children and families had a high level of need and low performance in most child-focused development indicators of education and health s

This report compares students in clusters of Literacy Boost schools with students at randomly selected clusters of neighboring schools and establishes baseline reading results for all students between April 6 th and April 30 th, 2012. The survey and readi

This report examines the results of a student background survey and reading assessment conducted between September 3rd and 14th, 2012 as part of Save the Children’s (SC)’s Literacy Boost program. The survey and reading assessment covered 261 grade 2 stude

In 2010, Save the Children began implementing the Literacy Boost program – an intervention focused on working with teachers and communities to improve children’s reading skills – in Allai Tehsil, part of the Battagram District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provin

In Bangladesh, reading is a competency expected to be mastered by primary school students in both Bangla and English. Curriculum expectations are that children should be fluent in reading both languages by the end of grade two, but Save the Children staff

This report examines the results of a reading assessment conducted between September 12th and October 26th, 2012 as part of Save the Children’s (SC)’s Literacy Boost program. The Literacy Boost program includes teacher training, community reading activiti

A presentation by Save the Children for the All Children Reading Asia Regional Workshop held in Bangkok, Thailand, September 17-20, 2012. It reviews the challenges to early grades reading in Asia; what research says about improving children's reading acqu

Save the Children's presentation of ' Literacy Boost: Lessons from Assessment and Community' outlines what Literacy Boost is, the role of assessment and tracking individual students, the role of community and parental support, the role of text and materia

In 2010, Save the Children began implementing the Literacy Boost program – an intervention focused on working with teachers and communities to improve children’s reading skills – in Oromia Region, Dendi District of Ethiopia. The Literacy Boost assessment

This report shares the reading assessment results of 234 children in 15 schools in Allai, Pakistan. Ten of the schools are piloting Literacy Boost, an innovative program to support children’s development of the five key reading skills (letter knowledge, p

The Save the Children Philippines Country Office (PhCo) has been supporting basic education for the past 20 years in the Philippines. In response to situational analysis findings in 2002 that pointed to rising numbers of pupils struggling with reading, Ph