Imaginative Literacy Program
This website describes and gives many examples of a new approach to teaching literacy. What is new about this approach is tied up with the ways it uses feelings and images, metaphors and jokes, rhyme and rhythm, stories and wonder, heroes and the exotic, hopes, fears, and passions, hobbies and collecting, and much else in engaging the imaginations of both teachers and learners with literacy. That is, it isn’t just that we use such tools for teaching and learning literacy, but we do so in a new and systematic way.-
Imaginative Literacy Program Website,
http://www.ierg.net/ilp/
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The chair of the National Reading Campaign weighs in on British Columbia’s efforts to help our young readers,
“The British Columbia government has taken a bold step in promoting the importance of the love of reading among the thousands of children enrolled in that province’s schools.” – Patsy Aldana
Read the full article HERE!
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