📚 National Literacy Month 📝

    

"Literacy is...the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential." -Kofi Annan, Nobel Peace Prize Winner

There are different kinds of literacy, but the subjects we are most familiar with are reading and writing literacy, which we will focus on here. Literacy is a doorway through which many other doorways are made accessible--worlds that did not exist before, come to life through being able to read and to write. Where once there was nothing, there are words, numbers, symbols, that all come together and make a language that allows people to communicate. As Barack Obama said, "Reading is a gateway skill that makes all other learning possible."

Some of the books we have on reading, are How to Read and Why by renowned literary critic Harold Bloom, and Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi. On the writing side of things, we have Actually, the Comma Goes Here by Lucy Cripps on punctuation and Writing to Change the World by Mary Pipher.