TIME

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A man from ancient Rome said it was better to know nothing about a subject than to half-know it. I’m worried that this Republic of ours is set on proving his wisdom all over again. Only, we aren’t even bothering to know 50% of what’s going on. Seems

True Love

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Reading is known to cultivate a child’s imagination, out-of-the-box thinking, curiosity and confidence. Experts agree that it also stimulates a lot of early language, literacy and social skills in children. “It really develops comprehension and incre

The Saturday Evening Post

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When Jeff Bezos unvei led t he f i r st Kindle in 2007, I ordered it straightaway. As a lifelong fetishist of the book, this didn’t quite feel right. But I withstood a surge of guilt about my small role in the metamorphosis of reading. In truth, the

The Christian Science Monitor

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Children stuck at home in virtual learning craved the oral readings of books online with teachers, providing a key lesson in the need to increase literacy.

Practical Motorhome

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Well, the good news is, all of the above are highlighted as the benefits of reading for pleasure, as identified by research from The Reading Agency.* The bad news is, almost a third of us don’t do nearly enough of it. Nevertheless, reading remains a

Equus

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Reading is an almost magical process in which deciphering lines and squiggles reveals a rich world of narrative and meaning. For children who have difficulty with reading, however, the doors to that world are largely closed. Addressing struggles with

Stuff Magazine South Africa

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The insanely popular language learning app has branched out into basic literacy for kids just battling to string letters together. Duolingo Kids is exactly what your little ones need to brush up on their ABCs and figure out the loose rules of English

New Idea

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While we tend to read to our kids when they’re little, there are plenty of benefits for reading out loud to our kids even after they’ve started school – and even into their teens. In a new book, 7 Steps to Get Your Child Reading, teacher and educatio

Mother & Baby India

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Each period of history is defined by the tools invented in it and the way in which they were used. The still recent transition into a new century is a good time to define how learning, and the learner, has changed. The wonder that is the i nternet ha

iPad User Magazine

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5 minutes How to set daily and annual reading goals Some books or audiobooks We all know that reading is good for us, but sometimes we’re not brilliant at making the time to do it. Apple’s Books app can help with that: it enables you to set a dai

MacFormat

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IT WILL TAKE 5 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to set daily and annual reading goals YOU’LL NEED Some books or audiobooks We all know that reading is good for us, but sometimes we’re not brilliant at making the time to do it. Apple’s Books app can help wi

The Christian Science Monitor

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Coping mechanisms can hide adult illiteracy – a problem linked to higher poverty and health-care costs. But even after cuts in government funding, one literacy nonprofit in Arkansas, led by Sara Drew, has grown.

Muse

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YOU FIGURED OUT HOW TO SPEAK AND UNDERSTAND SPEECH DURING YOUR FIRST FEW YEARS OF LIFE. No one taught you how to do it. Learning to read and write took a lot more effort. Reading doesn’t come naturally to people, but most of us have learned how. Eigh

The Guardian

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We are starting to see technology’s effect on child development and adult reading skills – and the research isn’t optimistic

The Atlantic

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As of January 2014, about 76 percent of Americans over the age of 18 said they had read a book in the last year, according to Pew Research data. But surely the other 24 percent of the population read something over the course of those 365 days. They

NPR

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Two-thirds of students in Washington, D.C., can't read and write at grade level when they start high school. One program helps teens improve — by giving them the tools to teach younger kids.

Your Pregnancy

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You’ve probably been buying books since before your child was born, because you know how important reading is to your child’s future. Even if you aren’t abig reader yourself, you still know that it is something you want for your child. Many parents m

Los Angeles Times

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Here's an embarrassing but true revelation: My sense of direction is less than optimal. That has led to many conversations like this one some years ago with my co-pilot, who thought GPS was for sissies, especially in L.A., which he knew well. Him: Wh

ChopChop Magazine

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Editorial inquiries: 617-924-3993 or write to: 695–697 Belmont Street, Belmont MA 02478 Copyright c 2020 ChopChop Family, a 501(c)(3) corporation. ISSN 2169-0987. 41st printing, printed at LSC Communications, July 2020. Printed in the U.S.A. ChopChop

The Big Issue

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World Book Day is here. It’s the annual focus on encouraging children to enjoy reading – and emphasising the power of books in this year of interrupted education is more important than ever. Over the last two decades, World Book Day (March 4) has all

Weekend Argus Saturday

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WITH the power of imagination you can go anywhere. In the children’s book Fly, Everyone, Fly the character Afrika imagines that he is a pilot and can fly anywhere. He later teaches his friends the beauty of this by using their imagination to go anywh

Woman & Home Feel Good You

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You might be surprised at just how much you can tell. Here Emma Bache, author of Reading Between the Lines (Quercus, £18.99), analyses celebrities’ notes. Victoria’s writing shows a tall upper zone. She can be stubborn, but her ego is healthy and she

NPR

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Over the past 25 years, U.S. adult literacy rates have not improved. Learning how to read, one adult learner says, is like "opening up a Christmas present every day."

India Today

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India’s sex ratio, steadily declining since independence, improved marginally only in the past decade (per thousand males) The rate of crimes against women has more than tripled in the past decade (per 100,000 women) Girls went missing in India—out

Tes

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In 2008, researcher David Mitchell conducted a meta-study of inclusion, asking what really works in special and inclusive education. His recommendation? “Adapt the mainstream to suit all pupils.” It’s a powerful comment on an education system that qu

Tes

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Bryony Evett-Hackfort, director of learning, teaching, technology and skills at Coleg Sir Gâr and Coleg Ceredigion: The trauma, fear and uncertainty of the collective experience that has shaped every day since March 2020 has left a lasting impact tha

Tes

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How much reading did your class do over lockdown? The likely answer for some of your pupils is: not as much as you would have liked. The temptation is to look at barriers to reading as an explanation: literacy challenges, no access to books, a lack o

Tes

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Despite what your parents tell you, pointing is not always rude. In fact, for babies, it plays an important role in the development of language. Studies have shown that babies’ use of the pointing gesture at 12 months is a good predictor of their voc

New Internationalist

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Deepika Singh learnt to sign her name during one of India’s frenetic mass literacy campaigns in the early 2000s. The 45-year-old remembers practising for months in order to write her name on a form that would then declare her literate. Almost 17 year

India Today

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✪ A global partnership was established with the Right Livelihood Award Foundation, Stockholm, which makes School of Social Work one of the 11 Right Livelihood Colleges RLCs) across the globe. RLCs are an interactive link between academia and civil so