{"id":493,"date":"2012-03-30T14:23:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T14:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=493"},"modified":"2012-03-30T14:23:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T14:23:30","slug":"the-world-literacy-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/03\/30\/the-world-literacy-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Literacy Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"hope\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hope.jpg?resize=240%2C342\" width=\"240\" height=\"342\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A global initiative on one of the world's largest challenges - improving lives through literacy.<\/p>\n<p>A world wide problem and this summit is about bringing together people from across the globe to share ideas, create platforms and to build a greater awareness of the international literacy crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Children are great learners and time spent in reading is still the best way to support learning, and alongside the children it is hoped to reach out to parents too.<\/p>\n<p>It has the power to transform lives, it helps families, through literacy; out of poverty and into prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>Best of all it can broaden horizons, fuel imaginations and develop creativity.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"World Literacy 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldliteracy2012.org\/speakers.html\">World Literacy Summit<\/a> is being held at Oxford from 1st to 4th April. There is a wealth of speakers and debates, including Dr Tony Cree from the <a title=\"Aboriginal Literacy Foundation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboriginalliteracyfoundation.org\/\">Aboriginal Literacy Foundation <\/a> and Dr Patricia Edwards from <a title=\"International REading Association\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reading.org\/General\/Default.aspx\">International Reading Association.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sue Martin  <em>Dolphin Booksellers- the best in children's books always on line.<\/em><\/p>\n<br>\r\nDolphinbooksellers.co.uk is part of <a\r\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.smithmartinpartnership.com\" target=\"_blank\">SmithMartin\r\nLLP<\/a><br>\r\n<br>\r\nA retail resource for the best children's books, entry point into our\r\nchildren's and community library procurement and supply service. Offering a miscellany of news and featured authors for all our readers,\r\nwhatever their age.<\/small><br><br><br>\r\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A global initiative on one of the world's largest challenges - improving lives through literacy. A world wide problem and this summit is about bringing together people from across the globe to share ideas, create platforms and to build a greater awareness of the international literacy crisis. Children are great learners and time spent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/03\/30\/the-world-literacy-summit\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"The World Literacy Summit\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<br>\r\nDolphinbooksellers.co.uk is part of <a\r\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.smithmartinpartnership.com\" target=\"_blank\">SmithMartin\r\nLLP<\/a><br>\r\n<br>\r\nA retail resource for the best children's books, entry point into our\r\nchildren's and community library procurement and supply service. Offering a miscellany of news and featured authors for all our readers,\r\nwhatever their age.<\/small><br><br><br>\r\n<\/body>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[190,191,192,189],"class_list":{"0":"post-493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-book-events","7":"category-dolphinbooksellers","8":"tag-aboriginal-literacy-foundation","9":"tag-international-literacy","10":"tag-oxford","11":"tag-wolrd-literacy-summit","12":"h-entry","13":"hentry","14":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqnT3-7X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}