Class 2 teacher Ireen Andrew told VBTC News that she believes the read-aloud activity greatly helps students.

“Choose a book at the level of your kid, read it first not to the kids but you, and put sticker marks to stop and ask questions, or pause to punctuation marks, or stop to ask what will happen next to say and ask questions to make them confident.”

There are four rules that are applied during reading.

The children also took part in writing and exercises such as plural and singular.

Student representative Willie Noulack thanked the continued training in literacy.

“Good support towards improving education and literacy in Vanuatu to our teachers. Thank you for being patient, dedication and commitment to educating us, to our parents and supporting us.”

Another class, Class 3, worked on the pronunciation of words.

Minister of Education and Training Simil Johnson said literacy is important to improve.

“And this learning will also not be in classrooms but will be with parents cause we are looking after the children of Vanuatu, whole Vanuatu.”

The reform currently being carried out recognises the importance of building a strong foundation from Kindergarten to Class 3.

Principal of Pango School Joe Kalotap thanked the Education Minister for visiting today.

The program ended with tree planting.