Ever since I first came on to Families.com as a Media Reviews blogger in August of 2006, my main emphasis has been on literacy. I believe it is so crucial to our civilization, our education, and any progress we ever hope to make as a people. As I choose books to review for Families.com, I look for books that will aid us in that quest for personal betterment, whether it be educationally or spiritually, or often for clean entertainment.
As I continue to pursue this quest, I will be posting blogs about literacy itself. I have found many fascinating statistics that will better help all of us to more clearly understand the levels of literacy found all around the world, and I would like to open a discussion with you on the following:
1. What is literacy?
2. How literate am I?
3. How literate are the members of my family?
4. What can I do to increase the literacy in my home, community, and country?
5. What can being more literate do for me?
I will be posting a segment about literacy every week. The information will be gleaned from not only local sources, but national and international sources, so we can look at the world at large while we also look at our own homes. Literacy is a global need, but it’s also an area in which we are globally falling short.
I would love to get feedback from you on how you are affected by literacy in your own life, questions you may have that I might be able to answer, and recommendations for books you think I’ll enjoy. Share your stories with us. Tell us about your children and how they are progressing in school. Perhaps your story of how little Johnny learned to sound out a word will inspire Susie’s mommy in ways that will help Susie become more interested in reading. The fundamentals of literacy are the foundation of every other form of education we possess. As I am so fond of saying, if you can’t read, you can’t do anything. But if you can read, you can do anything.
Join me next week as I take another look at literacy with part two of our literacy series, and in the meantime, take a look at all the books recommended on this website.
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