Telangana: Collector Anudeep launches ‘Every Child Reads’ to boost English skills in govt schools

District Collector Anudeep Durishetty launched the ‘Every Child Reads’ programme to improve English reading skills in government school students. The month-long phonetics-based initiative, monitored through a UDISE-linked app, aims to help each child read and understand simple paragraphs independently

Khammam: District Collector Anudeep Durishetty has initiated a programme ‘Every child reads’ aiming to improve reading skills of primary students of government schools in the district.

The programme, which started on October 27, is being implemented for an hour from 3 pm to 4 pm every day. It has been designed as a Basic English phonetics programme, as part of which teachers would teach students what sound each English letter makes.

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Phonetic sounds would be taught with small, short words so that the students could understand the concept easily. A study material has been prepared to enable the students to read English easily, Anudeep informed.

There would be a teacher activity and a student activity every day; teachers would interact with students by telling a story. The material consists of different stories using the words being taught to the children, who would later read the stories and thus would gain the ability to read.

Teachers were told to work hard to improve the reading skills of primary school students during the month-long programme and a review meeting was held with the teachers to explain to them about its objectives, the Collector noted.

It is very important for students to acquire reading skills first and understand what they read. Acquiring English reading skills would be useful for students throughout their lives and they would learn how to pronounce words.

An app has been developed to monitor the Every Child Reads programme. Since it is linked to Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE), no data entry is required and the teacher would update the level of reading skills of the students every Wednesday.

It is expected that after a month, every student should reach the level of reading and understanding at least one paragraph on their own without the need for rote learning. With the increase in educational standards, students’ future would be bright, Anudeep added.