Before the 15th century, Korean existed as a spoke... ...an writing used Chinese characters, which limited literacy to the elite class who could spend years learning... ...e 1418. His profoundly democratic conviction that literacy ought to be accessible to everyone was revolution...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/22/The-Kings-Letters/(Photo: Mike Burley/Telegaph Herald/AP)Courtney Holmes, a barber in Dubuque, Iowa, wants to encourage kids to read. So if a child sits in his chair and reads a book to him, Holmes will cut the kid's hair--for free! He's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/14/Barber-Offers-Free-Haircuts-to-Kids-Who-Read-to-Him/(Photo: WLOX)Biloxi Junior High School in Biloxi, Mississippi has a row of 189 lockers along its eighth grade English hallway. For security reasons, they've remained unused for over 15 years. Now they're back in service....
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/07/03/School-Paints-Lockers-as-Book-Spines-to-Create-an-Avenue-of-Literature/[http://youtu.be/VteDp3IK-60] (YouTube link)This ad from Bell’s Scotch whisky is like a Super Bowl ad in that it has nothing to do with the actual product, but is meant to make you feel. And you might feel proud of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/02/06/Bells-South-Africa-TV-Ad/This Saturday, over 600 public and school libraries and 1,000 booksellers in the United States are promoting reading by celebrating Star Wars Reads Day. Other libraries in Austria, Australia, Germany and Canada are also...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/03/Star-Wars-Reads-Day-A-Force-for-Literacy/I've always advocated that you don't have to be intelligent to have rights, but this idea from Defective Yeti has wondrous, if perverse, appeal. What if you had to prove that you had a grasp of basic grammar before y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/15/internet-access-captchas/Danny, a greyhound, has an important job at Oakhil... ...ered therapy dog who helps children improve their literacy skills by listening nonjudgmentally to students....
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/01/nonjudgmental-greyhounds-listen-to-children-read/Wouldn't you love to browse a shop like this? Hoxton Street Monster Supplies in London is a Ministry of Stories project that gives children a place to go for inspiration and where they can write and get help with their s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/26/hoxton-street-monster-supplies/The Letter People was a literacy program that began in 1972 and grew into a TV sho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/14/the-letter-people/New technologies are often blamed for the “dumbi... ...look at YouTube comments and chat rooms and think literacy is going into the dumpster. On the other hand, th... ...you see the internet as an aid or a hindrance to literacy
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