LITERACY BOOST
While more children are in school today than ever before, many are not learning basic skills like reading once they get there. Save the Children's Literacy Boost is helping to change that by creating a culture of reading both inside and outside the classroom that dramatically improves children’s literacy development.
What is Literacy Boost?
Literacy Boost is an adaptive approach designed using evidence gathered from across countries that Save the Children works in. It aims to improve literacy learning outcomes, and increase reading skills of children, especially those who may struggle to learn to read, in a growing number of program sites across the globe.
Literacy Boost focuses on four areas:
1) Reading Assessment: Identify gaps and measure learning improvements in the core reading skills
2) Training teachers: Teachers are trained on core reading skills and writing to incorporate skill-building into their regularly scheduled curriculum
3) Community action: Quality teaching and learning environments inside and outside of schools to help children improve their reading skills
4) Enhancing the literacy environment: Provide appropriate reading materials to practice and enjoy reading
Within the last decade that Save the Children has been implementing Literacy Boost, many successes have been captured, including the overall positive impact of the program, as well as equity improvements for participant children and a significant uptick in the number of implementing sites.
Despite the substantial progress that has been made towards increasing education access over the last decades, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the learning crisis and has negatively impacted more than 1.6 billion children. A recent survey from Save the Children shows that students have access to fewer distance learning options and lack the necessary support given that caregivers are facing challenges accessing essential services and goods. Literacy Boost has been one approach that has been proven to improve learning outcomes for some of the most marginalized children across the globe.
A donation to Save the Children can:
$25 – Train a teacher on the foundations of literacy instruction
$50 – Supply a teacher and classroom with teaching and learning materials (letter charts, flash cards, word games, etc.)
$100 – Purchase a new blackboard and supplies for a teacher in a low resource school
$1K – Fund an after-school remedial reading program, helping children catch up on lost learning time
Through Literacy Boost and other effective education and literacy programs, Save the Children is working together with partners around the world to ensure that every child receives a quality education and gains the skills and knowledge they need to thrive and develop.
Please donate today to make change for children. Thank you.
