Comments (8,598) The National Center For Family Literacy is promoting National Family Literacy Day on November 1st. Across the nation, roughly 10,000 literacy and reading programs will celebrate Literacy Day with a variety of family friendly events.
Many Literacy Programs give away free children’s books. It’s a great way to start a home library for a young reader.
When teachers focus on reading, they almost always assign fiction as the medium of choice for promoting literacy. Why?
There are plenty
of great non-fiction books out there that can spark someone’s interest in other disciplines as well. Reading better material would make teens more educated and more educable.
Most young people enter high school with little introduction to history, biology, natural science, politics, or other information that prepares them for graduation or college.
If at least 50% of reading and literacy assignments used non-fiction material, teens would have a significant increase in exposure to other disciplines.
Do the young people you know read fiction or non-fiction? Has this prepared them to meet the educational opportunities in their future?
Worldreader has launched a One Kindle Per Child campaign. They’re giving away Kindles free. The catch? Only in Africa. Their goal is to advance literacy by distributing books without paper, productions runs, bookstores, or any of the competing items in the reader’s market. It definitely promotes Kindles, but does it promote literacy?
Some economists are wondering how feasible it is to distribute Kindles without repair centers, batteries, electricity and the support structure that electronic devices require. 
Devices and advertising aside, the way to teach someone to read is to open a book and begin a dialogue.
The photo on the right is of school children in Ghana showing off the new Kindles.
What’s your opinion? Is this a way to advertise Kindles to a burgeoning economy, or a better way to teach reading?
A trip to the hardware store could help your children learn to spell better. If you’d like to improve their skills, pick up some sand paper for a tactile exercise that’s designed to build better memory for spelling words.
When they’re practicing for a spelling test, have your children write the words on the sand paper with their index and middle fingers. The tactile nature of this exercise improves the brain’s tendency to remember letter relationships and placement.
Do this at least three times for each word, and repeat this exercise daily when studying. Improvement in spelling skills will be different for each learner, but most will see progress with this method.
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