Improving Reading Skills by Encouraging Children to Read: A Randomized Evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines

Ama Abeberese

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Abstract: An evaluation of a program that aims to improve children’s reading skills by providing classes with age‐appropriate reading material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read‐athon. [Working paper No. 305]. URL: [http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/305.pdf].

Keywords: Education; Reading; Development; Philippines; program; children; skills; reading material; classes; Tarlac province; students; reading games; schhols; books; literacy skills; young children; public schools; literature; parents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-07
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