Petrina Francis, Staff Reporter
Rev. Anthony White (right) greets the president of the Jamaica Reading Association, Joan Hay, during the National Reading week church service at the Rehoboth Gospel Assembly on Constant Spring Road in Kingston, yesterday. - RUDOLPH BROWN/CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER
THE PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Reading Association (JRA), Joan
Hay, is urging adults to read to young children, suggesting that it would promote a higher level of literacy in the society.
"We implore mothers, fathers, uncles ... and caregivers to read to the very young," she said yesterday while speaking at a church service at the Rehoboth Gospel Assembly on Constant Spring Road in St. Andrew to launch Reading Week.
ESSENTIAL
Mrs. Hay also said that adults should continue to read because "it is essential ... from the cradle to approaching the grave, we should all keep reading."
The week is being celebrated under the theme, 'Early Intervention, The Key to Reading Success.'
The JRA president told the congregation that "we are cognisant that you can teach your baby to read and those who read to foetuses are aware of the benefits."
Members of the JRA will be visiting schools this week to highlight the importance of reading.
