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Jody Unterrheiner and Akello Catherine met at Layibi Techo Primary School in Gulu, Uganda in 2013. Both women were asked to teach in upper primary but it didn’t take long for them to realize it was incredibly difficult to achieve any learning in their classrooms because most their pupils, late into their primary education, were struggling to read basic text. Catherine and Jody started to collaborate teaching remedial phonics lessons to older pupils. One pupil in the last year of his primary schooling couldn’t read a single word but after learning phonics he began to piece together sounds to read more and more words. He is now in his fourth year of secondary school! Teacher Jody and Teacher Catherine working with pupils for MEGA FM classroom Teacher Jody and Teacher Catherine working with pupils for MEGA FM classroom The number of pupils struggling to read was so many Jody and Catherine decided to focus their efforts on the earliest year of school teaching phonics together in

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