Antonym: illiteracy. Similar words: illiteracy, literally, literate, literary, literature, obliterate, illiterate, alliteration. Meaning: ['lɪtərəsɪ] n. the ability to read and write.
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61. In December 1983, I am invited to an adult literacy center, not far from my home in Massachusetts.
62. Literacy, as that Nebraska professor recommended, is severed from imagination.
63. Since the formal education of many of their readers ended at 13 or younger, the Bund organised literacy classes and libraries.sentencedict.com
64. Questions of literacy, in Socrates' belief, must at length be judged as matters of morality.
65. These percentages are not based on functional literacy but on the most rudimentary writing skills.
66. Spreading literacy has meant more printed materials of all kinds, whether books, pamphlets or periodicals.
67. There are rich possibilities at meals for kids to learn about language and literacy.
68. My own initial year of literacy work confirms for me the presence of a limitless degree of motivation.
69. Between these two positions lies a range of literacy activity, such as personal autobiography, diaries, functional lists etc.
70. As well as teaching basic literacy skills the unit also teaches maths and numeracy.
71. Literacy, in common with all other economic and political interests, was a male and urban preserve.
72. Many of us hesitate to criticize the careless statements of poor people who have only recently developed literacy skills.
73. The emphasis is on contact and a chance to talk: non-formal activities centring on children, domestic skills and basic literacy.
74. The use of indigenous languages in the Burkina literacy campaign is both practical and political.
75. The industrial revolution, among other things[sentencedict.com], necessarily produced general literacy.
76. Literacy leaders might attempt to set up pedagogic roadblocks both ways on the highway of commercial publication.
77. There were also innovations in childcare, community education and adult literacy.
78. Dozens of other people were given basic literacy and numeracy training and enlisted to record client data.
79. The presence of a literacy detachment, on the other hand, may exercise an impact that will last for generations.
80. The first phases of a mass literacy campaign were launched.
81. By itself mass literacy does not bring about economic development.
82. Even less has there been evidence of any real correlation of objectivity itself with literacy practice.
83. Let the literacy workers be members of the community, not outsiders.
84. Consequently he defies the law and becomes involved in a township literacy programme.
85. We need an all-out literacy war in the United States.
86. This is the only adult literacy center in an impoverished mill town which is home to 80, 000 people.
87. And literacy, at least in the vernacular, could certainly be acquired without the aid of schooling.
88. Historical literacy today encompasses a wide range of skills as well as the acquisition of and understanding of knowledge.
89. It was the education secretary who insisted on a nationwide literacy and numeracy hour, not the chief inspector.
90. Gordon explained the difference between mere literacy and critical reading.
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