Literacy Matters Fact Sheet

How many people in BC have challenges with literacy?

How does that affect them?

This fact sheet presents some of the recent findings about literacy in BC and describes why literacy matters at home, at work and in the community.

Related Resources

How the Brain Learns to Read

This is one of the general readers from the Youth Literacy Project.

Introduction to Teaching Reading

Literacy practitioners are looking for alternate methods for training volunteer literacy tutors. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the need. This session is part of a series of virtual tutor training sessions. …

Strategies for Teaching Reading

A guide to strategies for teaching reading from the Youth Literacy Project.

Notice

We will be temporarily closing the Decoda Literacy Library from April to mid-May to accommodate schedules around and after the Decoda Conference. Please email Sandra, Executive Director (slee@decoda.ca), for urgent library requests.

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