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Global Literacy Engagement

The Global Literacy initiative promotes family literacy and global understanding by bringing together individuals and communities through community-based literacy activities.

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Global Literacy Blog

Fun, engaging, and effective literacy strategies to help children become proficient readers and writers while learning about the world in which they live. Blog postings are created by Buffalo State faculty and teacher candidates.

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The Global Book Hour

GBH initiatives can be found:

  • in Buffalo, NY at Wegmans on Amherst Street with Patty George who co-directs GBH
  • in Montgomery County with Kim Truesdell who co-founded GBH
  • in Santiago Chile at Escuela República de México with Universidad Mayor who partners with the IPDS
  • in Baton Rouge, LA with Rosalind Hudson who read about the project through the Reading Teacher article
Book Hour
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Global Literacy Channel

Videos created by faculty and students in the School of Education for parents, caregivers, teachers or teacher candidates to help the young readers and writers. This project was supported in part by the SUNY Buffalo State Institute for Community Health Promotion Collaborative Research Initiative.

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