Pratham Mysore - A Children's Literacy Movement
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Pratham Mysore

Every Child In School and Learning Well...

Pratham Mysore services include Balawadis (nurseries) for pre-school children, Balasakhi, Langauge & Maths remedial programmes for slow learners and out of school children, bridge courses with accelerated techniques for older children. Libraries to sustain reading interests and seminar-series to ignite creative thinking in children lend further support to Pratham Mysore programmes.

Kannada Language Reading Programme

The "Kannada Vachana Karya Krama" (KVK) package, developed by Dr. T Padmini, Educationist and Pratham Mysore trustee, is being used to improve learning outcomes among primary school children and building their kannada language skills. It is a remedial reading package intended to correct the graded difficulty at four levels namely Saralakshara, Gunithakshara, Sajathi Otthakshara, Vijathi Otthakshara. It also takes care of pronounciation difficulty.

KVK programme was hitherto being run in government schools through Pratham volunteers. With an aim to improve the reading ability of children in 60 days, this programme has now been handed over to government teachers of a few selected government schools.

Reading levels prior to and after (KVK) Reading programme
Reading Level Baseline # Children
(before KVK) 		Final # Children
(after KVK) 		Baseline % Final %
Story 11 178 2.9 46.4
Para 26 103 6.8 26.9
Word 50 73 13.0 19.0
Letter 155 29 40.4 7.7
Nothing 141 0 36.9 0
Total 383 383 100 100