Some Tips for Promoting Early Literacy

Posted on February 14th, 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) published a report in 2002 on world illiteracy statistics. In the report, the United States alone is projected to have an illiteracy rate of 5.3 percent by 2010. While that [...]

 

Contributed by Erika-Marie Geiss
Tags: early education, illiteracy, literacy, reading-to-babies, reading-to-children, reading-to-toddlers
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