Download or read book Reading Beyond the Alphabet written by Brij Kothari and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003-07-26 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is inspired by the need to devise appropriate strategies aimed at retaining and improving basic reading, writing and numeracy skills throughout life. The volume presents 14 innovations that recognise the important relationship between the 3Rs and personal and social empowerment. They illustrate the need to shift from an emphasis on literacy as a set of absolute skills to ‘literacy-as-practice’.