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. 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.