Yep, I just signed up for another read-a-thon! I'm setting my goal a little lower than last time, but it should be a lot of fun!
Come join us at the The Challenge Factory group for a Literacy Week Read-a-Thon. We hope you will invite your friends and family to join us and help us promote literacy.
Many of the ills plaguing the USA, for example, are directly related to illiteracy.
- Literacy is learned. Illiteracy is passed along by parents who cannot read or write.
- One child in four grows up not knowing how to read.
- 43% of adults at Level 1 literacy skills live in poverty compared to only 4% of those at Level 5
- 3 out of 4 food stamp recipients perform in the lowest 2 literacy levels
- 90% of welfare recipients are high school dropouts
- 16 to 19 year old girls at the poverty level and below, with below average skills, are 6 times more likely to have out-of-wedlock children than their reading counterparts.
- Low literary costs $73 million per year in terms of direct health care costs. A recent study by Pfizer put the cost much higher.
Dates: September 10-16, 2012
My Goal: 1000 pages
Books to Read
The Key on the Quilt by Stephanie Grace Whitson (160 pages remaining)
A Heartbeat Away by Harry Kraus (382 pages)
Shattered Silence by Margaret Daley (304 pages)
A Texan's Choice by Shelley Gray (320 pages)
Updates
I'll post daily updates on the blog.
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