Tag page - LITERACY

This national conference is what everyone needs right now in the transition to the technological period When we say literacy the first thing that comes to mind is the ability to read and write. As defined by the Oxford dictionary, its secondary denotation, on the other hand, is “competence in a...

Reading, in this day and age, has become even more important In the Philippines, National Reading Month is celebrated every November. The notion of commemorating reading and learning in the country started out in 2011, after former education secretary and Lasallian brother Armin Luistro declared...

LRMC and Binhi English Literacy Foundation partners up to improve education in the country BLESS THE CHILDREN Marcelo Marcela Elementary School in Pasay City receives learning kits from Light Rail Manila Corporation and Binhi English Literacy Foundation One of the main factors in determining the...

Growing up with books that were never my own The Philippines was still recovering from the devastation of World War II when my aunts started to teach me how to read, using their handwritten English prayer booklets as books were not easy to come by. I was four years old, and the only other reading...

When I was two years old, I memorized, from cover to cover, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids . I was read to every night before bedtime. A creature of habit, even before I could talk in complete sentences, I would pick the same book over and over again. Whenever I would hear the last few words of...