Literacy Boost Indonesia: Endline Report 2013

During the 2012-2013 school year, Save the Children (SC) began implementing the first year of the Literacy Boost (LB) program. The program, designed to improve reading skills for early grade students, focuses on working with teachers, parents, and community members, as well as providing reading materials, to boost students’ reading growth. LB trains teachers in effective literacy teaching methodologies and works with communities to maintain weekly activities for students to participate in, reinforcing literacy inside and outside the classroom.

Using an emergent literacy and early grade reading assessment, a subset of the students’ reading growth is tracked from baseline to endline to chart their progress through the year. These data also enable SC program staff to adapt the intervention’s teacher training and community activities to the students’ particular needs