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This collaboration aims to provide native Arabic

speakers with a powerful tool to improve their literacy in

Arabic, promoting a more effective and personalised

approach to improving literacy in the region.

By leveraging the expertise of Alef Education and the

MetaMetrics® Lexile® Framework for Reading, the

initiative aims to provide students across the MENA

region with the foundational skills they need for

academic success and lifelong learning.

Benefits of an Arabic reading scale include the ability for

governments to identify and measure students’ reading

levels and progress over time, regardless of the reading

materials used, by comparing geographic regions,

school districts, and individual schools using the same

scale.

In addition, publishers, EdTech companies, and authors

of Arabic language content will be able to link their

reading materials and assessments to the unified scale

to meet learners’ needs for reading materials. It will be

easier for teachers to measure their students’ levels and

create data-driven plans for their individual

development. At the same time, parents will understand

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