The theme for THE BIG READ is the importance of literacy and how the ability to read and write opens doors for all children.
Information Literacy was defined as the ability to identify, locate, evaluate, organize and effectively create, use and communicate information to address an issue or problem.
The biggest difference, Prof Nicolson says, is that when the class is broken down into ability groups within the literacy hour each day, the teacher has to move from one to another.
The poor and disadvantaged are the most likely to have low literacy and numeracy skills and lack the ability to find decent work.
And according to the FINRA Foundation, which studies financial literacy, women are seriously trailing men in their ability to make educated money decisions.
These centre on measures of literacy, understood in the widest sense as the ability to use different kinds of written material to perform real-world tasks of varying complexity.
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One should not downplay the importance of literacy, too, as the printing press and the ability to mass-produce cheap paper ignited an explosion in publishing throughout Europe in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
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As a result, withdrawal rates from state adult literacy programmes were extremely high, estimated at 80-90 %, while the ability of graduates to read unfamiliar texts, even after two years of instruction, remained very low.
Needless to say, adults with low levels literacy are less able to help their children and increase household income due to their limited ability to function efficiently within a market economy.
As well as doubts about their literacy, 55% of employers have concerns about graduates' "soft skills" such as the ability to communicate and solve problems.
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