The SAG-AFTRA Foundation (formerly the Screen Actors Guild Foundation) is an American organization that provides assistance and
educational programming
Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Vari ...
to the professionals of
SAG-AFTRA. It also provides children’s
literacy programs to the public. Founded in 1985, it relies solely on support from grants, corporate sponsorships and individuals to maintain its programs.
The Foundation contributes to the advancement of literacy through Storyline Online presenting
digital video
Digital video is an electronic representation of moving visual images (video) in the form of encoded digital data. This is in contrast to analog video, which represents moving visual images in the form of analog signals. Digital video comprises ...
s featuring professional
actors reading
children’s books
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader.
Children's ...
. Supplemental activities for each book are developed by an early
literacy specialist
Literacy in its broadest sense describes "particular ways of thinking about and doing reading and writing" with the purpose of understanding or expressing thoughts or ideas in Writing, written form in some specific context of use. In other wo ...
. Together, the videos and related curriculum strengthen
comprehension
Comprehension may refer to:
* Comprehension (logic), the totality of intensions, that is, properties or qualities, that an object possesses
* Comprehension approach, several methodologies of language learning that emphasize understanding languag ...
, verbal and written skills of
English. Available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, free of charge.
Actor
Courtney B. Vance is the current President of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation.
References
External links
SAG-AFTRA Foundation website
Educational foundations in the United States
Companies established in 1985
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