To mark International Literacy Day on 8 September, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) is launching a new publication entitled Fostering a culture of reading and writing: Examples of dynamic literate environments. The compilation features 18 case studies of successful youth and adult literacy programmes, all of which seek to foster rich literate environments within the family, the community or wider society. […]
Read moreMany schools in Singapore have been very creative in finding ways to encourage their students to read. In doing so, they have nurtured a whole school reading environment in which teachers are reading role models, books and eBooks are widely available, and time (yes, curriculum time even!) is set aside for leisure reading. In doing […]
Read moreWolf Erlbruch is the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2017 Laureate. He received the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from H.R.H. Crown Princess Victoria. Swedish Minister of Culture and Democracy, Mrs Alice Bah Kuhnke, gave a speech in honour of the laureate. During the evening, musical entertainment was provided by Swedish opera singer Rickard Söderberg and the […]
Read moreTwo recent literacy guides can help librarians and other educators in their literacy efforts: Learning together across generations: guidelines for family literacy and learning programmes / Hanemann, Ulrike; McCaffery, Juliet; Newell-Jones, Katy; Scarpino, Cassandra. Source: UIL, 2017-05 Using the PIAAC literacy framework to guide instruction: an introduction for adult educators / Trawick, Amy R. Source: […]
Read moreAn online survey distributed to librarians at public libraries across North America established some interesting trends in public librarians’ perceptions of ebooks and teens. Some of the findings of this study are that teen library users strongly prefer to read print books for their recreational reading and show very little interest in ebooks or ebook […]
Read moreWolf Erlbruch has been chosen as the 2017 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Laureate. Wolf Erlbruch was born in 1948, is a German illustrator and picturebook author. He has written some ten books of his own and illustrated nearly fifty titles by other authors. He is best known for his illustrations of The Story of the […]
Read moreA new publication of UNESCO “Reading the past, writing the future: Fifty years of promoting literacy” is now available online. This publication takes stock of youth and adult literacy interventions which have been implemented since 1966, when UNESCO held its first International Literacy Day. It sheds light on the literacy-related challenges the world is now […]
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