Literacy Boost

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

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. Literacy Boost helps children learn to read and read to learn by measuring kids' reading skills to see how well they know their ABCs, sound out words and letters, read and understand sentences, training teachers to help children crack the code of reading, keep students engaged and interested in reading books, and use games, songs and stories in literacy lessons, and getting communities involved in learning by providing books, libraries and supplies, sponsoring camps, "reading buddies" and other learning activities.


Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

East Asia & Pacific, Global, Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East & North Africa, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burundi, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Viet Nam, Yemen, Zimbabwe

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

Not applicable or unknown

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Ministry of Education in program countries for Teacher Training and Community Advocacy components

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

Global / regional

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Quality

  • Teacher training

Skills

  • Literacy

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

Not applicable or unknown

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • General awareness-raising/community engagement

Social/gender norms change

  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – pedagogy general

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • Literacy - outside the classroom

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Increased literacy

Cross-cutting goals

Not applicable or unknown