This report examines the results of a student background survey and reading assessment conducted between March 19th and March 30th, 2012. The survey and reading assessment covered 200 grade 3 students in six primary schools receiving Save the Children (SC

Between May 27 th and June 7 th, 2012, 275 grade 2 students in 14 primary schools in the Nketoana and Maluti A Phofung municipalities in the Free State of South Africa participated in a reading skills and habits survey. Children in seven of these schools