Stacey Bradley: Literacy is a Right not a Privilege

Lifelong learning champion Stacey Bradley was asked to “just come to one meeting”. She did and that is how she became the President of the Manitoba Reading Association. September 8th is International Literacy Day and on this episode, Stacey talks about the incredible appetite young children have when they start to learn to read, but she also talks about the challenges of losing interest in reading as children get older. In her words, sometimes “we start to lose them as they get to middle school”. Social media, puberty, and friendships becoming more important are just some of those reasons why reading starts to take a back seat in the middle school years. Stacey discusses some of the methods teachers are employing teachers to reverse this trend.The fact that in 2022 not every child can read is heartbreaking. Stacey Bradley shares some of the methods that teachers are engaged in to make sure every child has the right to learn to read.For a Transcript of this episode, click here.