{"id":1276,"date":"2025-12-15T15:49:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T15:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2025-12-15T16:16:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T16:16:21","slug":"why-is-literacy-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/2025\/12\/15\/why-is-literacy-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is literacy important?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1280 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/public\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/uploads\/sites\/3841\/2025\/12\/15161237\/Screenshot-73-300x121.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/public\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/uploads\/sites\/3841\/2025\/12\/15161237\/Screenshot-73-300x121.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/public\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/uploads\/sites\/3841\/2025\/12\/15161237\/Screenshot-73.png 359w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/>Literacy is one of the cornerstone to success to life. Being able to read and write (and communicate successfully) is essential for engaging in education and in other areas of life (for example, in employment and personal relationships)<\/p>\n<p>A significant number of adults have very low levels of literacy and, without adequate literacy skills, are at a higher risk of experiencing poor mental health, unemployment and involvement in crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literacy is one of the cornerstone to success to life. Being able to read and write (and communicate successfully) is essential for engaging in education and in other areas of life (for example, in employment and personal relationships) A significant number of adults have very low levels of literacy and, without adequate literacy skills, are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/2025\/12\/15\/why-is-literacy-important\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why is literacy important?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8618,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,156,66],"tags":[49,48,310,305,408],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-support","category-getting-it-right-for-every-child","category-development","tag-communication","tag-language","tag-literacy","tag-supporting-development","tag-up-up-and-away"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}