‘World Read Aloud Day’ is celebrated on the first Wednesday in February.
The first ‘World Read Aloud Day’ was in 2010. Its aim was to promote diverse voices and narratives around the world, and to further the cause of promoting literacy. It is now a truly global happening with 173 countries that currently participate.
Reading aloud is seen as a continuation of the human tradition of storytelling to pass information down the generations before writing became a…