Worldreader aims to ignite a lifelong love of reading and learning in families and their children. Collaborating with AWS Partner SoftwareOne, Worldreader used AWS generative AI technology to create book-aligned activities (BAAs) for a selection of stories available under Creative Commons license.

Discover Worldreader’s impact on readers, communities, and families worldwide. Learn about our latest projects, events, and stories while exploring our impact numbers and a message from our CEO.

This article highlights emerging findings and implications of Raising Readers, a two-year study conducted by ODI in partnership with Worldreader, and supported by the EdTech Hub.

This paper explores the opportunities and challenges in enhancing parent and caregiver engagement through the use of EdTech, and presents lessons learned from EdTech interventions aimed at increasing reading among children in low and middle-income countries across the world.

Learn about Worldreader's impact around the world in 2023. Explore our impact numbers and stories from each region as well as awards, events, and conferences, and read a special message from our CEO.

Deploying design-based, mixed-methods research, the EdTech Hub study Raising Readers (Phase 1) explores how BookSmart can be best used to strengthen parent and carer engagement with children’s reading in Kenya.

The Center for Universal Education (CUE) at Brookings has published the "The Childhood Cost Calculator: A simple tool for costing interventions for children and youth". Worldreader staff, Wendy Smith and Leslie Tettey, are co-authors.

Learn about Worldreader's impact across the world – find a message from Worldreader's CEO as well as details of our work in each of our regions, impact stories, events, and more.

The Teacher Professional Development at Scale (TPD@Scale) program leverages information and communication technologies (ICTs) and blends online, offline, digital, and traditional teacher training modalities to support Ghanaian educators. Thousands of teachers are now trained and hundreds more signed up.

Worldreader and NISA empowered families to read on BookSmart for 75 days in celebration of India's independence by providing reading opportunities during the summer holidays. The 75-Day Reading Marathon saw over 8,000 parents and caregivers read with their children every day.

Together with Open University in the UK, Worldreader worked to strengthen school leadership through an improvement science approach. School leaders and researchers worked together to design, implement and assess innovations to combat learning loss in their schools.

In collaboration with the Municipal Education Office of Kwaebibirem, Worldreader established a digital reading program that reached 90 primary schools over three years. Teachers in the program successfully adopted e-readers into their classrooms, reporting improved digital skills and changes to their pedagogy.