French elementary schoolchildren will now have access to a literacy program developed at Concordia University.The Abracadabra software program that has been a hit with English schoolchildren since 2009 will be translated into French with help from the Quebec government.Education Minister Line Beauchamp announced Friday that her department will pitch in $300,000. Another $150,000 will come from the ministry of economic development to translate the hugely successful interactive literacy tool used by children from kindergarten to Grade 2 to foster reading and writing skills.Getting the program translated into French has long been a goal of Monique Brodeur, dean of education at Université du Québec à Montréal.More than $700,000 of the necessary $1 million needed for the adaptation had been secured previous to Friday’s announcement.
See: Montreal Gazette
0 comments:
Post a Comment