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Cuento El Cinturón de Fuego
El cuento de "El Cinturón de Fuego" está dirigido a niñas y niños en edad escolar, con información sobre uno de los volcanes más importantes y activos de Guatemala, promoviendo las habilidades de lectoescritura y el aprendizaje sobre los fenómenos natural
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Digital vs Print: Obtaining the best literacy outcomes in complex low-income environments
The interest for and use of digital education solutions (‘EdTech’) has increased under the COVID-19 pandemic, with students around the world unable to attend on-site schooling. Field experience, across delivery of multiple international programs, confirms
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Mirrors, Models and Mother Tongues: Why cultural relevance matters
The world faces a global literacy challenge. Children in low-income countries are disproportionately overrepresented by low literacy rates compared to their counterparts in middle- and high-income countries. The average students in a low-income country pe
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Translation matters: protocols and practices for book production in low-income and remote communities
When delivering children’s books and educational resources into low-income and remote environments experiencing resource poverty, questions around how best to translate a text have a unique relevance. This Working Paper surveys academic and NGO research a
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Lectoescritura para Cada Niño y Niña aun en Tiempos de COVID-19
Un webinar realizado para celebrar el Día Internacional de la Alfabetización en el que participaron compañeros de Save the Children de Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia y Venezuela. Comparten las adaptaciones de Literacy Boost, especialmente las
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Children's Book Development and Use in Rwanda
In Rwanda, Save the Children collaborated with Education and Culture Ministries, publishing industry stakeholders, schools, book sellers and libraries in order to strengthen existing systems and increase output and availability of quality local language c
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The FLASH Toolkit: The Financial Literacy and Sexual Health Toolkit: Very Young Adolescents 10-14
This curriculum is for very young adolescents aged 10-14 years and combines financial literacy, livelihoods readiness, sexual and reproductive health, and gender-equitable content delivered in a fun and interactive way. It can be used in small groups to s
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Rwanda: Midterm survey tracking literacy, knowledge, attitudes, and practices at the school and community level
Mureke Dusome was a four-year USAID-funded project that aimed to foster partnerships between schools and the broader community in a bid to improve children’s literacy outcomes. The project was being implemented by Save the Children and its partner organiz
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Innovations Used in the Advancing the Right to Read Program in Rwanda
This paper focus on innovative adaptations that were made to Advancing the Right to Read programming (including peer learning circles and model teachers of Kinyarwanda) and discuss: why they resulted, what impact they had and what they have taught Save t
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Ready to Learn: Common approaches
Ready to Learn is Save the Children's program that helps 3 to 6-year-old children develop foundational literacy and math skills. The program is an evidence-driven, play-based response to the global learning crisis in which millions of children are not gai
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Age-Appropriate Reading Materials are Needed to Foster Reading Skills in Young Children in Cambodia
On the occasion of the 3rd National Reading Day on 11 March 2018, three leading education NGOs in Cambodia – Save the Children, Sipar and World Vision International Cambodia – have released a statement calling for more budget investment and improved polic
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Assessing the Impacts of Literacy Learning Games for Syrian Refugee Children: An executive overview of Antura and the Letters and Feed the Monster Impact Evaluations
The crisis in Syria has left 2.3 million children without an education, many of which are now living in displacement in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Greece, and Italy. There are many obstacles to the continuation of schooling for these children: the tra