World Read Aloud Day: Itâs imperative that we embrace literacy in 2021
By Opinion
By ZahâRah Khan
South African children, along with their global counterparts in 66 countries, will once again immerse themselves in a world of new words, interesting characters and gripping plots on World Read Aloud Day (Feb 3).
Presented by global literacy non-profit LitWorld and sponsored by Scholastic, the annual literacy celebration advocates for greater access to literacy through diverse stories, as well as the power of reading aloud.
This has shown to have an immense impact on the academic and cognitive development of a child, and as suggested by a recent national survey of 4 517 public school educators in the US , their social-emotional well-being too.
Reading aloud is ‘a way of making reading visible,’ says Scholastic’s Pam Allyn, founder of the internationalist LitWorld nonprofit today on its World Read Aloud Day.
Image: LitWorld.org
Pam Allyn: ‘Expanding Our Understanding’
As Scholastic again joins the nonprofit LitWorld today (February 3) in the 12th annual World Read Aloud Day.
The LitWorld program itself has an “activity hub” here with resources for World Read Aloud Day. And Scholastic’s offering, which parallels that of the LitWorld effort, has a download available (PDF) of titles recommended for reading aloud at age groups between 0 and 12 years. Scholastic also has a store set up for the event here.
Empower children by teaching them to read for enjoyment
By Shanice Naidoo
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 anywhere they like.
This year the Nalâibali, the national reading-for-enjoyment campaign, has brought a special story to children to celebrate World Read Aloud Day (WRAD). In the first year, 2013, the campaign reached 13Â 000 children and last year, the goal was to read aloud to 3 million children in a single day.
Nalâibali celebrates WRAD on February 3, to draw attention to the importance of reading aloud to children in their mother tongue. The NGO commissions a brand new story â best suited for reading aloud to primary school children â and translates it into all 11 official South African languages.
Ghanaians, Liberians urged to support World Read Aloud Day
By Tulasi Mathias Listen to article
Mr. Mathias Tulasi, the Chief Executive Officer of Literacy Ambassadors Ghana, and Dr. Stafania Forte of Stafania Forte Education Foundation have called on Ghanaians and Liberians to support the upcoming World Read Aloud Day celebration slated for Wednesday, February 3, 2021.
According to them, at least 793 million people across the globe remain illiterate and something must be done to reduce the number drastically “especially in Ghanaian and Liberian schools where most pupils do not benefit from lessons taught at school because they do not understand the English Language which is the medium of instruction”.
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