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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 […]

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 tend […]