The Nigeria Centre for Reading Research and Development (NCRRD) was established in October 2017 as a collaborative project between Bayero University, Kano (BUK) and Florida State University (FSU), Tallahassee, in the United States of America with funding support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The idea to establish this Centre was based on the global realisation about the critical role of reading skill as the foundation of learning across the levels and subject areas taught in schools. The idea was also based on the challenges of reading skill and poor reading culture facing early grade learners.