Early Literacy Facts
Did You Know?- 1 out of every 5 of our nation's school-age children suffer from reading failures.
- A majority of all poor readers have an early history of spoken-language deficits.
- A child who is not a fluent reader by 4 th grade is likely to struggle with reading in adulthood.
- Poor reading and writing skills have a devastating lifelong impact - 75% of school dropouts report reading problems, and at least half of adolescents and young adults with criminal records have reading difficulties.
The importance of literacy for learning
"Literacy is a critical tool for the mastery of other subjects and one of the best predictors of longer-term learning achievement. Reading must be considered a priority area in efforts to improve the quality of basic education, particularly for learners from disadvantaged backgrounds." EFA Global Monitoring Report 2005: Summary Unesco Publishing"Reading for fun is a foreign idea to many people," says Prof Thomas van der Walt, head of the Children's Literature Research Unit at Unisa, "Yet research shows that there is a direct link between reading (stories) - and school results. The more children read, the better they do at school. Even in maths and science." Daily News October 28, 2004
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