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Friday, December 25, 2015 - Karachi—The USAID has completed the distribution of 120,520 teaching and reading resources in 1,460 schools in seven districts of Sindh including Sukkur, Larkana, Dadu, Qambar Shahdadkot, Jacobabad, Khairpur, Kashmore and five towns of Karachi under $165 million government to government initiative.

The project is being implemented under Sindh Basic Education Program (SBEP, which is the US government’s direct support to Sindh Education Sector Plan 201418. As an integral component of SBEP, Sindh Reading Programmes in line with Sindh’s educational priorities to advance primary education and contribute to USAID’s global education target of 100 million children withimprovedrudimentary learning and literacy skills.

These reading and teaching collaterals, consisting of lesson plans, readalouds and levelled readers, have been distributed under the USAID funded Sindh Reading Program (SRP), which is working in collaboration with provincial government to reinforce foundational reading skills of children in Grade I and Grade – II.

The format of teachers’ lesson plans is activity based and implementation friendly. It inspires greater level of interaction between teachers and students, thus having a positive impact on student teacher relationship.

The material development is based onan absorbing consultative and review process led by the Material Review Committee appointed by Government of Sindh and comprising language and curriculum experts from public and private institutions.—PR

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