The Registrar of the Ghana Scholarship Secretariat, Dr. Kingsley Agyemang in collaboration with the Abuakwa South Education Directorate has launched a reading competition for pupils in the Abuakwa South municipality.
The initiative dubbed ‘Kinsley Quizzes Readathon’ is to address the challenges faced by primary school pupils in reading.
Launching the project, Dr. Agyemang stressed the need to ensure more resources are extended to the basic level to develop the reading skills of pupils.
“We are very much aware of the results of the national standardization test for basic two where in 2015 the result showed 98% of Ghanaian children at basic two cannot read. In 2022, the same text was conducted and 64% can still not read. This is not something anyone should be proud about,’’ he indicated.
He believes the intervention in the Abuakwa South municipality will encourage students to have the basic skills in reading and comprehension.
The Readathon Challenge will take contestants through four rounds consisting of word spelling, reading efficiency and proficiency, reading comprehension, character expression and building of other words selected from the reading books.
Twenty (20) schools have been selected from the municipality for the Challenge, with six weeks to prepare on fifteen sets of textbooks.
The Kinsley Quizzes Readathon will provide educational materials to pupils after the competition.
