I came across thereadingtub.com a few days ago, while looking for book recommendations for very young children. The Reading Tub is a volunteer-lead organisation that works to encourage and promote literacy in children, and to that end they collect and distribute books to at-risk readers, ranging from children with no books at home, to teachers [...]
I just found this blog post by a personal tutor, describing a revelation about the destructive effect of stress on the learning process. It sounds like it was a painful lesson to learn, but I’m sure his students are better off for it!
I found this website earlier; it’s run by a woman called Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord, who teaches kids to make books. There are lots of free activities on the site, as well as book recommendations, ideas and tips. A really inspiring resource.
I’ve just been reading about an initiative being run in rural Niger which uses mobile phones as a tool to aid in increasing adult literacy.
The scheme is called IMAC (Information sur les Marchés Agricoles par Cellulaire), and it allows users to access information about the relative market prices of agricultural products in a number [...]
I happened upon an article earlier this week about a literacy-promotion scheme which I’d never heard of before.
It’s called Reach Out and Read, and its mission is to make literacy promotion a standard part of paediatric primary care, by training doctors and nurses to advise parents about the importance of reading aloud, and giving [...]
There is a link below to a very interesting article on the eyeball control of dyslexic Chinese children.
Chinese is fundamentally different to English in that it uses symbols for words rather than an alphabet representing the sounds in words. Therefore the auditory processing deficit that we see so often in English-speaking children struggling to read, [...]
Iansyst, a Cambridge-based company specialising in assistive technologies for conditions such as dyslexia, dyspraxia, and dyscalculia, is currently running the 2009 iansyst Dyslexia-Friendly Best Practice Award, a competition aimed at recognising and celebrating best practice for dyslexia provision in education. This year’s theme is “Celebrating the Strengths of Dyslexic Students,” and the winning school gets [...]
Here is an interesting article about the wiring of the brain for literacy.
A lot of what we are doing during Easyread is to link the visual cortex to the auditory cortex. That is quite an unnatural pairing and so does require effort to set up. Most of the children displaying signs of dyslexia 12:01 trailer
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Sir Jim Rose has reported his findings on dyslexia. What he says makes great sense.
He makes 19 recommendations, but his two main points are first that dyslexia is related to reading difficulty and should not be expanded into other areas. Here is his definition:
“Dyslexia is a learning difficulty that primarily affects the skills involved in [...]
Here is an article about the vast sums of money being spent on adult literacy:
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