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Rwanda: Baseline survey tracking literacy knowledge, attitudes, and practices at the school and community level
Mureke Dusome (Let’s Read) is a four-year project that aims to improve children’s literacy skills by supporting reading outside of school. The project aims to create and strengthen partnerships between schools and communities, increase effective community
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Assessing the Construct Validity of Save the Children's International Development and Early Learning Assessment (IDELA)
The International Development and Early Learning Assessment (IDELA) was developed by Save the Children to assess early childhood development holistically. It has been used in 30 mostly low- and middle-income countries. High-quality measurement plays a cri
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Cambodia First Read Endline Report, 2016
This report describes the results of an evaluation of “FIRST READ: Supporting families with preschool children to learn together in Cambodia”, funded by the Prudence Foundation. IDELA Documents
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Literacy Boost: Belajar, Indonesia
This report describes the results of a baseline survey of second grade students’ reading skills and background characteristics in the Belu district of Indonesia. The baseline was conducted in order to inform Literacy Boost BELAJAR programming in Belu by e
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Literacy Boost: Sri Lanka, Endline Report 2016
This report presents the endline results of the Dubai Cares-funded program "Partnering to Improve Children's Literacy" (Literacy Boost) in Sri Lanka, Killinochchi and Mullaithivu Districts.
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Endline Evaluation of Rwandan Children's Book Initiative (RCBI)
Through the support of the Innovation for Education fund, a partnership between the Governments of Rwanda and the UK, Save the Children in Rwanda began implementation activities for the Rwandan’s Children Book Initiative (RCBI) in May of 2013 to support p
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Ready to Read: England
Learning to read well starts early, and good early language skills are the vital stepping stone. If children do not learn to speak and listen from an early age, along with developing their understanding of the meaning of words and stories, they will strug
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Read on Get on
New research published here starkly shows that the UK has the strongest link among developed nations between poor literacy and unemployment. Only one other country in Europe, Romania, has more unequal reading attainment among ten-year-olds. This report se
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The Power of Reading: How the next government can unlock every child's potential through reading
The mission of the Read On. Get On. campaign is to ensure every child is able to read well when they leave primary school by the year 2025. This document is directed toward the United Kingdom government, elected in 2015. This report sets out the key polic
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Enjoying Books Together At Home: Ideas for parents and carers for encouraging reading
"Enjoying Books Together at Home" is a short guide for parents to use when introducing their children to the importance of reading outside of school. It includes suggestions for parents and caregivers of activities they can use to encourage reading at hom
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Literacy Breakthrough: Global Ripples from our Programs
As a global movement working to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, Save the Children’s literacy programs have grown in influence beyond their initial implementation sites. Around the world, Save the Children education teams are le
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Enjoying Books Together: A guide for teachers on the use of books in the classroom
This guide has been produced by the Rwandan Children’s Book Initiative, a project of Save the Children. The aim of the guide is to introduce Rwandan teachers to the importance of written material and books and to share some ideas for how they can be used