Nurturing Early Literacy

USAID partners with Tata Trusts and the Center for microFinance to shift the prevalent rote-based pedagogy in India to one that views the child as an active learner, who can effectively learn sounds and symbols, read and write with comprehension, and can apply their knowledge in everyday life. Using a multi-pronged approach that includes in-class training sessions for teachers, and equitable access to libraries for children both in schools and communities, this activity aims to improve the reading skills of more than 90,000 primary school children in the states of Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Karnataka in India.