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Laxgalt’sap is one of six First Nations communities in the province whose young children will be given the chance for free books to enhance literacy and learning.As part of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, each family will have the opportunity to register their child for the program and receive a free book every month in the mail until their child’s fifth birthday.

The books are carefully selected by a group of experts in education, child development and early childhood literacy, ensuring that the content they read and the illustrations in the books are supporting the child appropriately at every stage of his of her development.

The program offers a way for parents to connect with their children, support their children’s language development and prepare them for kindergarten.Up to 30 rural and remote communities are eligible for the program, with more expected to sign on over the next several months.

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 A charity is giving free poetry books to thousands of reception class pupils in England to inspire a love of reading. The Booktrust scheme will see 750,000 book packs with a poetry anthology and a story book sent to primary schools. A survey carried out by Booktrust found a third of children wanted to read more poetry or have more read with them.

Of the 1,051 seven to 14-year-olds polled, 44% said their mother did not enjoy reading poetry with them. The survey, conducted to mark the distribution of the free book packs, found half of the seven to eight-year-olds liked reading poetry compared with only 31% aged 12 to 14. In a separate poll of 1,507 parents, nearly a third (31%) said they never read poetry with their children.

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All 11-year-olds in England will be able to receive a free cookbook under a programme aimed at tackling obesity. Head teachers will be able to order the booklet, which has recipes for favourites such as spaghetti bolognese, roast chicken and jacket potatoes.

Ministers are also announcing that £151m will be spent building food technology areas in schools. The initiatives are designed to pave the way for compulsory cooking lessons for all 11- to 14-year olds by 2011.

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