“After six years, PARC makes us believe that collaboration is, indeed, the path to overcoming child illiteracy in Brazil. In 2024, we achieved 69% of child readers in the 18 supported states, an increase of 41 percentile points since 2021.”
Partnership for Literacy through Collaborative Governance (PARC) supports the state government in developing and implementing policies aimed at improving learning at the 1st and 2nd grades of Elementary School, focusing on children’s literacy at the appropriate age.
The results of the 2024 reading fluency assessment highlight advances in literacy: the percentage of children who have learned to read has increased and the number of students who are not yet readers at the end of the 2nd year has dropped.
Reading fluency and the PARC assessment
Literacy allows children to develop autonomy for communicating in various forms, acquire new knowledge and improve skills in different areas. One of the dimensions of this process is reading fluency: the ability to read texts expressively and with no major obstacles.
According to the CAEd/UFJF metric, adopted in PARC’s reading fluency assessments, a child is considered to be at the adequate level if, by the end of the 2nd grade, they read more than 66 words per minute, with over 90% precision.
Since 2019, the reading fluency assessment has been applied in PARC partner states through a census-type survey. In 2024, over 1.3 million children from 17 partner states took the assessment. Students are categorized into profiles: pre-reader, beginner reader and fluent reader, according to their performance on the test. The results of the test are shared with education networks, schools and teachers in order to support classroom work.
Student of the municipal education network of Vargem Grande (MA).
