Developing Countries Use Innovative Play-based Technique to Teach Children Reading, Writing and Basic Math Skills
The creator's daughter, Catalina Gonzalez, founded Literacy4All to ensure students in developing countries were learning their basic reading, writing, and math skills during early education.
NEW YORK, June 5, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The abcdespañol board game has for 30 years served as a learning tool in more than ten countries to help approximately a million children, youth and adults develop literacy skills. The creator's daughter, Catalina Gonzalez, founded Literacy4All to ensure students in developing countries were learning their basic reading, writing, and math skills during early education. "Children who don't learn how to read by the end of third grade are likely to remain poor readers for the rest of their lives, and are likely to fall behind in other academic areas," says Gonzalez. Her organization created LEMA — Literacy Education and Math Lab — for underprivileged communities and trains its members to become learning coaches to support learning no matter who or where the learners come from. According to Gonzalez, play-based learning through LEMA not only improves students' reading and math skills, but also allows them to "develop social skills, communication, collaboration, problem-solving and conflict resolution skills." Literacy4All promotes fun learning because it believes academics can only improve for all once effective collaboration is achieved. Gonzalez adds, "Through play, we are able to remove one of the biggest barriers to learning – fear."
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Catalina Gonzalez is the Founder and Director of Literacy4All, an organization geared towards ensuring 1st-4th grade students in developing countries are at their appropriate reading, writing, and math levels. After beginning the organization in her home country of Columbia and successfully implementing LEMA, Literacy4All has now expanded into 3 other countries and is expected to reach even more in the upcoming years.
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