Tag: literacy
Guinea book festival aims to improve literacy
The 15th annual ‘72 Hours of the Book’ festival recently took place in Guinea, filling a sports stadium with people eager to celebrate literature and literacy skills.
Publishers, writers, editors and readers from across West...
Designing Learning Ecologies
How did you spend much of 2020? Hours online? And then came 2021, being both easier and more...
Study Shows Brain’s Innate Capacity for Reading
The human brain is predisposed to visualizing words, even before individuals acquire literacy, according to a team of researchers at Ohio State University.
Their paper, published in Scientific Reports,...
Illiteracy Costs U.S. $300.8 Billion a Year
A new report estimates that illiteracy costs the U.S. approximately $300.8 billion per year.
According to the "Economic Cost and Social Impact of Illiteracy" report, 21% of people in the U.S. have low level literacy...
A Revised Composing Process
Remember during a test when you were staring at the ceiling in elementary school, and the teacher asked you if the answer was on the ceiling? Maybe it was.
Here is a suggestion I hope...
Fostering Language and Literacy Development
Literacy is essential for success in school and in life beyond school. The ability to read and write well provides individuals with untold opportunities as they move through school, pursue advanced education and careers,...
Literacy Education in 2023
If you were tasked to pick one word to guide your work as a literacy changemaker in the new year, what would it be? As the new year is upon us, and the magnitude...
Paul Krugman and the Power of Science Fiction
“My mind is so free and unburdened that I am fixing to clean up my desk.”Flannery O’ConnerQuoted by Susan Ohanian, Books Day by Day, entry for April 16
I cleaned my desk recently (more precisely,...
Declaring Literacy as a Fundamental and Global Civil Right
For decades, educators and parents have been fighting illiteracy. Research indicates that 95% of children can learn how to read with evidence-based instruction. However, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), only...
Cuéntame: Meg Medina named Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
Award-winning Cuban-American author Meg Medina has today been announced as the Library of Congress’ National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature.
Notable for her Merci Suárez series, Medina has accepted the two-year position which involves traveling...