More Tips for Promoting Early Literacy

Posted on February 15th, 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In Some Tips for Promoting Early Literacy, the importance of reading was discussed. But what about the other side of literacy, writing?
While your child will not be writing the Great American Novel anytime soon, encouraging writing and writing-related activities [...]

 

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Some Tips for Promoting Early Literacy

Posted on February 14th, 2008

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 does not seem to be a high percentage, any illiteracy should be considered troublesome.
How do we [...]

 

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Tags: early education, illiteracy, literacy, reading-to-babies, reading-to-children, reading-to-toddlers
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