Growing Tomorrow’s Leaders from Today’s Readers
The READERS2LEADERS project for children in the rural settings focuses on developing and improving the reading culture of basic school children in rural communities. Its aim is to train young children to develop the love and passion for reading from an early age in order to propel them into becoming great achievers in whatever careers they may desire to pursue in future. According to Stickney (2016), the Director of Educational Research at Renaissance Learning, reading is very important for improving achievement in school and career-readiness standards, and ultimately, for helping students to become well-enough rounded and successful adults.
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The vision was born out of the observation that many rural children who make it to Senior High Schools are deficient in reading, a situation which derails their academic performance in many ways. The vision is also as a result of available data on the reading ability of children in the primary schools in the country, which showed a rather huge and worrying gap between rural and urban school children.
According to a study conducted in 2013 by the Assessment Services Unit (ASU) of the Ghana Education Service with support from Research Triangle International and USAID, among 19,458 Primary three pupils and 17,447 Primary six pupils in 550 public and private schools in 170 districts, there is generally a low level of reading and comprehension among Ghanaian school children. The study also revealed that 44% of pupils could read without understanding what they read, while only 4% of pupils were able to read with some understanding, and only 2% were able to read fluently with comprehension.
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