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TimesLive: Government called to set laws to boost reading rate among pupils through campaign launch
The Right to Read Campaign was launched on Wednesday to call on government to establish legislation for minimum obligations when it comes to improving and monitoring the literacy rate among school pupils.
31 August 2023
Government, civil society and the education sector are called to mobilise to prioritise the strengthening of early-grade literacy due to the high number of pupils who cannot read.
The Right to Read Campaign was launched on Wednesday at the Constitutional Hill in Johannesburg in response to the alarming literacy rate in the country.
This after the 2021 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) revealed in May that 81% of Grade 4 pupils cannot read for meaning in any language including their home language.
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The Right to Read Campaign aims to mobilize civil society and the education sector, as well as society at large, to make early grade literacy a national priority reflected through legislative reform. One of the ways we have identified to do this is to advocate for the development of binding regulations for reading in the first three grades of school.