Indigenous Literacy Day
Indigenous Literacy Day will be celebrated on Wednesday 7 September 2022.
The day is a reminder to us all that
Literacy provides a fundamental step of building context, comprehension and understanding, whether it is written, visual or auditory. For kids who miss that foundational step in their literacy journey, it has a lifelong impact.
Source Indigenous Literacy Foundation website.
As part of the celebrations you and your school can register to attend a free National Digital Event, Celebrating Stories, Cultures and Languages. For more details and to register click here.
CCSP would like to draw your attend to the Indigenous Reading Project an independent organisation, established in 2012 as a not-for-profit Australian Company, working to bring about change in the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids. The group works with teachers to identify kids that have clear potential to succeed in their E-reading program. Students are loaned tablets and given access to e-books that are interesting to them. The group provides clear goals and positive incentives to encourage students to read more. The group measures the reading behaviour and reading achievement of students before they enter the program and again after 12 weeks. If the evidence shows that the student has made good progress, then the tablet is given to them as a reward.
Details how to apply for the 2023 program will be available in Term 1 2023. CCSP suggests parents and carers discuss the program with teachers at their children's school.