Tuesday, January 27th will be Family Literacy Day. The role of parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings - families - is integral to developing not only children's technical reading and writing abilities, but their ability to interpret, analyze, create and appreciate communication of all types. Literacy is not only reading and writing, but talking, listening, viewing and creating. In the 21st century we have created many distinctions within literacy - visual literacy, digital literacy, social literacy, and, finally, transliteracy. Transliteracy includes all forms of communication. In order to be critical, creative, contributing citizens our children need to be transliterate. Families provide children with experiences that help them not only to gain communication skills, but to develop the sense of joy that comes with competence and, later, mastery. ABC Life Literacy Canada has some great ideas for adding a little fun to your usual family literacy activities: 15 Minutes of Fun, and Family Literacy Fun booklet full of activities to download. Here is a video from ABC Life Literacy Canada to give you some inspiration too - literacy is not just reading!
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