Family has the most critical role in literacy according to the acting executive director of the Literacy Coalition of New Brunswick, who tells us what happens with the family is the most long-lasting and profound.
Wednesday is Family Literacy Day, which Lynda Homer says it’s a day to celebrate the importance of family literacy activities and also a day to raise awareness of how important it is to promote literacy activities within the family.
She says they talk about how important reading and sharing books is with children, however, “there are so many other things beyond the reading and it doesn’t have to be special time it can be part of the routine. Or you’re getting dressed but you’re singing a nursery rhyme or you’re having family game time.”
According to information from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies in 2013, 18-5 percent of the New Brunswick population ages 16-65 falls into the category of low literacy.
And just announced, the gold-standard reading program SpellRead is being brought to Saint John by Halifax Learning. You can read more about that program by clicking here.
