One major reason for the poor reading levels is the lack of exciting reading materials for children.

The program supplies colorful story posters that are stuck on walls in every school. The funny stories and the colorful pictures motivate children to read. During lunch breaks and in between classes children spontaneously crowd around these posters reading them aloud with a lot of excitement.

To keep this excitement alive, teachers stick 4-5 new posters on the walls every week for the first 1 month. This excitement is contagious. Seeing their friends reading so excitedly builds up a desire to read in children who cannot read. This ‘wanting to read’ is the first step towards actually reading.

Generating motivation and excitement in children is central to Padippum Inikkum. This is what makes learning fun and when children have fun, they learn better!