UNESCO has declared September 8th to be “World Literacy Day” for the past forty years. I know I’m one day behind, but at least these resources will be available next year…

Along with the specific Literacy Day resources I have later in this post, I thought it would be useful to share all my “The Best…” lists related to reading:

• The Best Websites To Help Beginning Readers
• The Best Websites For Beginning Older Readers
• The Best Websites For Intermediate Readers
• The Best Sites To Learn About Street Gangs
• The Best Sites To Teach ELL’s About Libraries
• The Best Places To Read & Write “Choose Your Own Adventure” Stories
• The Best Sites To Help ELL’s Learn Idioms & Slang
• The Best Sites Where ELL’s Can Learn Vocabulary
• The Best Sources For Free & Accessible Printable Books
• The Best Websites For Developing Academic English Skills & Vocabulary
• The Best Online Personality, Career, Political & Just Plain Fun Quizzes
• The Best Sites For Learning About The Winter Season
• The Best Sites For Creating Sentence Scrambles
• The Best Sites For Images Of Fall Foliage (& For Teaching About The Season)
• The Best Sites For Learning About The Spring Season
  The Best Sites For Creating Personalized “Newspapers” Online
  The Best Collections Of Funny Signs (For Use In English Classes)
  My Best Posts On Books: Why They’re Important & How To Help Students Select, Read, Write & Discuss Them
  The Best Sites For Learning About The Summer
  The Best Places For Students To Learn About…Their Names
  The Best Resources Documenting The Effectiveness of Free Voluntary Reading
  The Best Articles & Sites For Teachers & Students To Learn About Phonics
  A Beginning List Of The Best Folklore & Myth Sites
  The Best Sites For Learning About The Alphabet
  The Best Fun Videos About Books & Reading
  The Best Resources For World Read Aloud Day
• The Best English-Language News Sites With An “Ethnic” Focus — Help Me Identify More

Here are my choices for The Best Resources For World Literacy Day:

I’ll start off with this infographic:

International Literacy Day 2011: Your messages – in pictures is a slideshow from The Guardian. People can submit photos for this year.

Here are some more infographics from UNESCO.

Celebrate International Literacy Day! is a lesson from Read Write Think.

English Lesson Plan on International Literacy Day is from ESL Holiday Lessons.

Additional suggestions are welcome.

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