Our Mission & Vision
Literacy Blooms mission is to support Multi-Generational Learning by partnering with family members in the teaching and learning of Literacy: reading, thinking, writing, listening, speaking and Language Development.
The gift of literacy and language promote joy and ease of learning. Parents and families are a learner’s first teachers. Families who play, talk, read and sing with their children boost the development of literacy and language-readiness for success. Literacy Blooms listening, speaking and thinking learning essentials are brain building, practical and evidence based-prerequisites for successful and pleasurable schooling.
Literacy Blooms believes Engaged Families who determinedly interact with their children create brain building pathways-nurture cognitive development and promote openings for foundational and timeless learning.
OUR BOOK “READING IS THINKING / LEER ES PENSAR”
Reading literacy, language ideas and activities in this guide brings families and educators together, embraces learner’s natural curiosity and develops the love of reading.
Promoting literacy-reading, thinking, writing, listening and speaking at home makes a difference. Reading for fun becomes a lifelong routine, schooling is easy and graduations are a given.
Why read?
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Reading develops the imagination.
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Reading helps you write and speak correctly.
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Reading takes you places you have never visited.
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Reading takes you to a time you have never experienced.
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Reading introduces you to people you have not met.
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Reading introduces you to new ideas.
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Reading entertains you.
Nancy Carter Ball, my grandmother, taught, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Early Literacy advocates agree the most favorable time to learn to read is Pre-K through Grade Three. The teaching and learning of reading includes: talking and being listened to, reading and being read to, singing and being sung to, and guiding learners through the sensible and researched plan in Reading is Thinking.