These Kids Can Read!: The Pratham Model
There are two essential ingredients in the Pratham model—grouping students by ability level rather than grade level, and using volunteers from the community to support camp activities.
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These Kids Can Read!: Building Critical Thinking Skills
In the Beed district of Maharashtra, a student presents her own story based on the words written on the board. Children have the opportunity to use their creativity and imagination—building critical thinking skills.
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These Kids Can Read!: Peer-Learning
Students are divided into small groups, with local volunteers assigned to each group. Each group elects a spokesperson to present their group’s version of the story. Groups face off against each other, asking questions about their classmates’ stories.
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These Kids Can Read!: Mind Mapping
In another exercise called “mind mapping,” the cluster resource leader writes a word from the story in the middle of a circle. Each child builds associations from this one word.
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These Kids Can Read!: Annual Status of Education Report Assessment
To ensure each child is learning to their full potential, Pratham expanded the Annual Status of Education Report assessment to include factual and inference-based questions.
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Last updated: August 13, 2014
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