Library Marks National Family Literacy Day

Saturday, January 27, 2007 03:00 PM

Prince George-Mount Robson MLA Shirley Bond says libraries are the cornerstone of the Liberals’ new action plan aimed at making B.C. the best-educated, most literate jurisdiction on the continent.

The $27-million dollar first phase of ReadNow BC was unveiled yesterday (click here for previous story).

And today, the Deputy Premier stopped in at the Bob Harkins Branch of the PG Library to do her part on Family Literacy Day.

Much to the delight of a number of youngsters gathered in front of the reading couch, Bond read a story that was written by a class of Kamloops students, titled "Mermaid’s Lost Pearl."

The Minister spoke briefly to the kids and their parents about the importance of reading, leaving them with a book each to take home. For the library, she also left an autographed copy of Robert Munsch’s, "Mud Puddle".

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Posted on Saturday, January 27, 2007 03:00 PM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: banananuthead on January 27 2007 7:28 PM

More hard-hitting "journalism" from Shirley Bond's bestest friends at Opinion 250

Posted by: Chester on January 27 2007 10:36 PM

$27 Million? Who is this for again? The older generation who can't fill out application forms? Or the pre-school kids?

Right, develop a website for them. Guess what? If they can't read, do you expect them to use computers?

I wonder who thinks this stuff up? Another government employee trying to justify their $65,000 per year job. Boggles my mind.

You want a challenge? Try to apply for EI or an Apprenticeship program in BC. You need more than a grade 12 education to complete this challenge. You will most likely lose interest, move out of BC, get frustrated and choose another career. Or, take another job, because you just couldn't complete the process in the time allowed. Absolutely unbelieveable. The people running the programs don't even know what they need when you phone them for clarification of what they want. Chester

Posted by: owl on January 28 2007 9:46 AM

readNOW, eh????

sort of like actNOW?
http://www.actnowbc.gov.bc.ca/EN/everyone

LegacyNOW; LiteracyNOW; StrongSTART?

With all these compound words, no wonder people are illiterate. They are nowhere to be found in a dictionary if you want to look them up, and there are no definitions on what those who coined them think they mean.

They are no different than acronyms. They are "jargon". A language full of jargon is what makes people more illiterate. literacy means understanding what one reads. If people can read the word "Viriconium", and do not know what "Viriconium" is, then the reading skill is sort of useless.

Remember spelling bees? "Spell Viriconium". One of the more common questions that then comes from a participant is: "can you please use Viriconium in a sentence".

People recognize the letters, even the individual words, but the combination puts them into a different context of meaning.

As someone posted on here ... 1984 is arriving a bit late.

I wonder when they are going to take the next step and coin words such as truckSAFEnow? No doubt when they run out of money and discover that trucks are not safe enough yet and have to stick more money into the program. But, they might start a truckSAFE readiness program first.

;-)