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Why your child may be a poor reader in school

Your child is probably struggling to read basic English and Kiswahili because you missed the right age to enroll him or her to standard one.

A new Ministry of Education report reveals that children aged between five and nine years performed well in basic literacy skills compared to older or younger children. The required enrollment age of a child to Standard one is six years.

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