Making books with children

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...

Improving literacy improves quality of life.

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...

Reading on prescription.

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...