National Literacy Day is celebrated on November 14th

O National Literacy Day, celebrated annually on the day November 14, Its main objective is to make the population aware of the importance of implementing better teaching and learning conditions in the country.

October 14, 1966 was the first year that National Literacy Day was celebrated. This date honors the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC)..

In Brazil, the World Literacy Day or International Literacy Day which is celebrated on September 8th. The date was established in 1968 by the UN and UNESCO with the aim of promoting literacy in the world.

Activities for the National Literacy Day

• Poetry and Poetry Contest;
• Spelling;
• Literacy Activities;
• Saying;
• Cutout Dictation;
• Produce texts (Individually or collectively);
• Drawings to color;
• Making souvenirs with students;
• Making of murals and panels in the classroom;
• Literacy Activities;
• Theater;
• Conversation Wheel;
• Plays and Dynamics;
• Newspaper;
• And much more.

Phrases and Messages for the National Literacy Day

• The role of the teacher – Joseph Addison : “A teacher always affects eternity. He will never know where his influence ends.”
• Education has roots that are bitter, but its fruits are sweet.
• Education comes from birth – Jean-Jacques Rousseau: “Man's education begins at the moment of his birth; even before speaking, before understanding, one is already instructed”.
• Writing – Emília Ferreiro: “Children are, from birth, builders of knowledge. They raise difficult and abstract problems and try to find answers to them themselves. They are building complex objects of knowledge. And the writing system is one of them”.
• Knowledge – Paulo Freire: “Teaching is not transferring knowledge, but creating the possibilities for its own production or construction”.

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