COLUMBIA (WACH) -- Students at St. Andrews Middle School celebrated International Literacy Day Thursday.Some students wrote fortunes for fortune cookies while others learned how to make sushi. Other events to mark the day included reading a traditional Nigerian Folk Tale and listening to Greek myths.
Rita Black, Media Specialist at St Andrews Middle School, said, “many of our students have never left South Carolina so it’s even more important for us to realize what goes on in the rest of the world and understand their cultures and also to understand their literature.”
According to the International Reading Association more than 780 million of the world’s adults do not know how to read or write.
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