Play With Your Literacy Skills! Jam

Play With Your Literacy Skills!
Plan to meet your friends or family.
• give them directions to a place you like in your neighbourhood
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Write down how to play your favourite childhood game and teach
your family how to play it.
• learn how you can Play for Literacy and make a difference
at www.FamilyLiteracyDay.ca
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Share a bedtime story with your child.
• act out the story using different voices and sound effects
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Go to the library with your family.
• read or borrow books and magazines on your favourite hobbies
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Try out this recipe for Jam-Filled French Toast Sandwiches.
• make them together as a family
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8 tablespoons fruit jam
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Read together.
Grow together.
Learn more at www.F
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