Literacy Mugs

'I think we're being educated for failure...'

'More might have turned up, Sir, if you had put the apostrophe in the correct place...'

Fight Iliteracy. Donate A Book.

'About half the students increased speed and lost some comprehension. The other half increased comprehension but lost some speed.'

'I started to read the headline but then my mind wandered.'

'Well how do you spell it then?'

'I'm reading aloud, Jeremy - My lips are SUPPOSED to be moving!'

'My penmanship has really improved since I got a laser printer.'

"Reading is definitely much better for you. I don't even own a TV anymore."

'When did the first two vowels appear?'

Good writing is good thinking

"I'm not good with letters."

Book worm.

"Take my word for it, Jeremy - If you learn the alphabet, it'll just lead to the HARD stuff."

'I need an example of a collective noun.'

'Literacy is NOT overrated!'

Bad Gramma Skool

Library Closures.

Child lifting alphabet blocks.

'That's pretty sneaky. You agree to learn the ABC's, and then they tell you about the other twenty three letters.'

'Pretty sneaky. They get you to agree to learn the ABC's, and then they tell you about the other twenty three letters.'

'Not too nitid was the potboy who served pooris to a looby.'

'Subscribing to Sesame Street on cable doesn't really count as a literacy program.'

Monster in shape of letter C.

Girl reading book upsidedown.

"Because he's illiterate. That's why I have to read to him all the time."

'If you can't spell properly, how are you ever going to produce decent lav graffiti?'

'Yeah, I have spell-check on my phone, but it's not a smart phone.'

Time to pick a reading partner and get to reading!

Opening of the Book Fair in Cuba

'Why are writing so slowly?'

D.A.U.P. People United Against Dyslexia

''Whom has mis-spelt millennium.' He said, for he had been to night school.'

'...And then I says to the guy, 'how 'bout I pop you in the nose?' and then he goes...'

'It's a rabbit I got yesterday but I didn't know how to spell rabbit.'