{"id":346,"date":"2016-09-07T15:57:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/?p=346"},"modified":"2016-09-07T15:58:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:58:52","slug":"international-literacy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/2016\/09\/07\/international-literacy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"International Literacy Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sibo<\/a><\/p>\n

For more than 40 years UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) has been celebrating International Literacy Day on the 8th<\/sup> of September to remind everybody in the world that \u201cliteracy is a human right and it is the foundation of all learning\u201d.<\/p>\n

So true \u2013 if you can read you can just about do anything. \u00a0Reading sets you free!<\/p>\n

Many of us take reading for granted and forget that there are still millions of people in this world who cannot read. I\u2019m not talking about babies or young kids either. I\u2019m talking about adults who just never had the chance to learn.<\/p>\n

The sad thing today is that many kids have plenty of opportunities but just can\u2019t be bothered to read. My friend Ginny had a stand selling books at the mall last year and some kids sauntered over to check them out. One dude picked up a book and leafed through it. His friend took it out of his hand and said \u201cNo ways! It\u2019s a chapter book. We don\u2019t like chapter books.\u201d\u00a0 Then they ran away laughing before Ginny had a chance to ask them what they meant by not liking chapter books?<\/p>\n

Books are great. They open up so many different worlds. You can get lost in them and imagine that you are the heroine or the villain in the story. You can learn about new places and different countries. You can find out about different animals and how they live \u2013 ones that you will maybe never see in real life either (except in a zoo).<\/p>\n

Of course the more you read the cleverer you get too!<\/p>\n

Kindles and electronic readers are all the range these days\u00a0 \u2013 they are useful if you are going away because then you can take plenty of books with you in one neat little package instead of lugging a suitcase!<\/p>\n

Reading makes me happy when I feel sad. If I\u2019m bored, I grab a book to read.<\/p>\n

Even if I don\u2019t really feel like reading a story \u2013 I can still read something that shows me how to make things \u2013 like the nifty beads I told you about last week.<\/p>\n

Of course it\u2019s not just books that we read; there are newspapers, magazines and comics as well. You can watch subtitles on the TV too.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve got a computer you can go to www.sibo.co.za<\/a> and read some books on-line free.<\/p>\n

Read more!<\/p>\n

Sibo<\/p>\n

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