August House Partners with the Discovery Learning Alliance

August House is pleased to partner with the Discovery Learning Alliance (DLA) in order to share our animated folktales with young, emerging readers in Africa. The animated videos will be stored and distributed by the Discovery Learning Alliance on a thumb drive library, along with other educational content for educators to use with their students. Educators will have access to the Story Cove animated folktales in approximately 1,500 primary schools in Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya, serving marginalized communities in urban, peri-urban, and rural areas.

Discovery Learning Alliance is a non-profit organization that uses the power of media to transform education and improve lives in marginalized communities around the world. August House is pleased to announce our partnership with DLA for the purpose of sharing our Story Cove animated folktales to help support long-term, sustainable education interventions in developing countries.

The videos will be prepared specifically for these schools and used during literacy lessons, as well as for after-school literacy clubs through the DLA Learning Center platform. Teachers will use these videos to help develop core literacy skills and foster a love of reading. The content will be used for storytelling and re-telling, story sequencing, vocabulary development, fluency and comprehension in both first and second language programs. In addition, the animated stories will be creatively adapted to various levels and used as a springboard for post viewing "reading" activities.

Education is key to social and economic empowerment. Discovery Learning Alliance is a non-profit organization using the power of media to transform education and improve lives in developing areas. Together with public and private sector partners, DLA is improving student learning and teacher effectiveness in the classroom, reaching millions of students through mass media distribution and empowering communities with transformative educational opportunities.

August House is a highly acclaimed and award-winning, multimedia publisher of children's picture books, folktale anthologies, scary story collections, and resource books. Located in Atlanta, GA, August House has developed one of the most highly respected collections of folktales from the world's great oral traditions. You can find more information about August House at http://www.augusthouse.com, or on Facebook and Twitter at @augusthouseinc.

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