Literacy Archives — Planet Word Museum The museum where language comes to life Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:17:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://planetwordmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-PW_Logo_BLUE_circle-2-1-32x32.png Literacy Archives — Planet Word Museum 32 32 Is Listening to Audiobooks Reading? https://planetwordmuseum.org/from-the-founder-is-listening-to-audiobooks-reading/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:17:00 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=10526 In a guest essay in the Times (November 23, 2025), Brian Bannon, the chief librarian at the New York Public Library and its director of branch libraries and education, argues…

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]]> The State of Literacy in the Digital Age https://planetwordmuseum.org/the-state-of-literacy-in-the-digital-age/ Mon, 13 Oct 2025 20:55:50 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=10401 Five years ago, Planet Word opened its doors with a bold mission: to spark a love of words, language, and reading in people of all ages — at a time…

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]]> A Manifesto for Planet Word 2.0 https://planetwordmuseum.org/a-manifesto-for-planet-word-2-0/ Mon, 05 Jun 2023 21:48:51 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=7198 Back in 2013 when we started planning a museum of words and language, it was mainly intended to be a new way to bring disaffected readers back into the fold…

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]]> Happiness and Literacy: The Dinner-Table Connection https://planetwordmuseum.org/happiness-and-literacy-the-dinner-table-connection/ Tue, 21 Feb 2023 15:53:11 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=6593 In an interview with The Washington Post’s weekly family section (“The mundane, radical, fun, painful ways we can help our children find happiness” by Deborah Famer Kris, February 2, 2023),…

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]]> Prison Reading https://planetwordmuseum.org/from-the-founder-prison-reading/ Wed, 28 Dec 2022 18:27:15 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=6354 So the latest financial outlaw and crypto-currency-exchange fraudster, Sam Bankman-Fried, was quoted in an interview prior to his downfall and arrest as proclaiming “I would never read a book.” Who…

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]]> What Is Reading For? https://planetwordmuseum.org/from-the-founder-what-is-reading-for/ Mon, 19 Sep 2022 14:30:35 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=5945 Recently the New York Times devoted an entire Sunday Opinion section to the question “What Is School For?” What a crazy question, I thought! Being a former teacher, the mother…

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