A Global Competition for Innovative Solutions to Advance Reading and Literacy
Teaching and Learning Materials
Teaching and Learning Materials
Teachers and students in developing countries typically have limited access to high-quality and appropriate teaching and learning materials.
Recent programs supporting the development of materials for schools, communities and homes are beginning to report positive impacts on student learning. However, the provision of textbooks in developing countries continues to be inadequate and supplemental reading materials are even harder to find.
Teachers must have access to teaching materials for classroom instruction and children must have access to learning materials for reading practice. Children with access to textbooks score higher on reading tests and those who report having other books at home score even higher.
A study in Ethiopia found that having a textbook boosted children’s oral reading fluency by 9.6 words per minute, and having other books at home boosted their fluency by 8.3 words per minute.8
Innovative and affordable approaches are needed to overcome barriers to the design, production, distribution/delivery, and use of high-quality, durable and consumable materials (narrative, expository, and instructional) in appropriate languages for the primary grades in developing countries.
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