To celebrate this World Book Day, GBA has compiled a list of resources related to book supply chain, book publishing and TLMs you might find useful in your work.
GBA Chair attends Dhaka National Textbook Festival 2024
Closing the literacy gaps for marginalized children in underserved languages
GBA Partner Spotlight: All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development
All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development develops, implements, and scales game-changing ed-tech solutions and tools to bring the gift of reading to children waiting to learn to read. As a part of the Global Book Alliance, All Children Reading shares the vision of a world where all children have access to quality books that they can use to learn to read, read to learn, and develop a lifelong love of reading.
How Caregivers Can Support Reading at Home
The Benefits of Read Alouds: World Read Aloud Day
Ensuring Books For Half the Sky – Why Girls Need Books
Literacy ensures that girls build confidence, develop self-esteem and believe in their ability to achieve their dreams. However, girls face a greater risk of illiteracy than their male peers. Approximately 496 million adult women around the world are unable to read and write. The GBA Open Book webinar—Ensuring Books for Half the Sky: Why Girls Need Books—included GBA partners who engage in supporting, advocating, and ensuring change so that more girls can get access to books and a quality education.
Covid-19 Content in Underserved Languages Added to the Global Digital Library
GBA Steering Committee member All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development (ACR:GCD), has recently announced important progress on one of GBA’s flagship initiatives, the Begin with Books prize, with the contribution of age-appropriate early grade reading content related to Covid-19 to the Global Digital Library.
Why schools are only part of the solution for effective global education
Best Practices for Developing Supplementary Reading Materials
Goal 1 of the USAID Education Strategy aims to improve the reading skills of 100 million children in the primary grades by 2015. This paper captures the highlights of existing research concerning best practices in certain areas of supplementary reading materials development for early grade students. It covers issues of font type and size, letter and word spacing, color and its cost implications, trim sizes and binding methods, paper, production methods and scale, and the potential possibilities of a digital platform of supplementary reading materials.