"...The authors of the study said that capitalizing on the storytelling skills of Black children is important in assisting them with their early reading development.“Building on children’s oral narrative skills is a strategy for schools looking to connect with children,” said Iruka, “especially as schools support children of color who come from a culture that has cherished these skills.”

Sankofa is Akan word from Ghana, which means “go back to the past and recover it,” “return to the source,” or “we must go back and reclaim our past so we can move forward; so we understand why and how we came to be who we are today.”  If people of African descent want our children to succeed in literacy, we must go back to the past, to the ways of the griot."

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