Peru 🇵🇪 · Case Study

Rural Literacy in Low-Connectivity Contexts

Strengthening foundational literacy teaching in public rural schools

The Challenge

Peru faces a foundational learning crisis: 63% of second-grade students do not reach expected reading comprehension levels. This gap is even more pronounced in rural areas like Ascope, where indicators are far below urban districts. The challenge is systemic: rural teachers lack tools and support to implement a structured literacy approach at scale. Since 2024, in strategic alliance with Teach Peru and UGEL Ascope, Mentu has been working to strengthen the competencies of 150 rural public school teachers.

The Solution

Through a learning engineering process — participatory workshops, contextual diagnosis, and national curriculum indexing — we co-designed two tools adapted to the specific challenges of primary literacy:

Reading Comprehension Planner

Ensures explicit and structured teaching of foundational skills. Allows teachers to define differentiated strategies based on classroom heterogeneity, with adapted difficulty levels and activities adjusted to each student's progress level.

Learning Experience Creator

Supports teachers in designing Project-Based Learning (PBL) that connects reading to students' local context challenges and knowledge, transforming reading into a tool for solving real problems.

Results