Practice hauntingly good literacy this Halloween

(Toronto, ON, October 28, 2009)

This Halloween, ABC CANADA Literacy Foundation reminds families to practice literacy skills with some fun literacy tips, tricks and treats:

1. Organize Halloween candy in different ways.

Organize by shape, size, candy name, or even candy type, and then trade!

This activity helps to reinforce the importance of math in everyday life.

2. Sing the Monster Mash! Singing is a great literacy activity, it encourages learning patterns of words, rhymes and rhythms, and is strongly connected to language skills.

3. Follow a recipe to make pumpkin pie... yum! Following recipes is a great way to improve both reading and math skills.

Children can read the instructions out loud to help measure the ingredients when making a treat for the family.

4. Tell ghost stories on Halloween night.

Children can become storytellers using a favourite toy or an old stuffed animal as a character in the story.

5. Research the history of Halloween, and share spooky statistics!

Literacy benefits the entire family.

All it takes is spending 15 minutes a day reading, writing, singing, playing a game or following a recipe together.

More than 300,000 Canadians will join ABC CANADA Literacy Foundation and founding sponsor Honda Canada in celebrating Family Literacy Day (January 27, 2010.)

Participants will Sing for Literacy at various Family Literacy Day events and help raise funds by pledging online via www.family literacyday.ca

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